a gypsy kleptomaniac azro (harvey keitel), whose wife and son mark (adam lavorgna) recently left him, is now a vagabond, and lives off the grid with his intelligent capuchin monkey fingers (finster). azro blames fingers for his wife and son leaving. he works as a hurdy gurdy-playing busker at venice beach, using fingers' cuteness as a way to lure in tourists. azro has taught fingers how to pickpocket the audience members. a pair of italian mafia members named drake (robert miranda) and charlie (victor argo) show up to azro's act. they deduce azro's scheme, and proposition him to bigger and better opportunities. they ask him to join their crime syndicate, with fingers using his pickpocket skills to burglarize homes of socialites. the men want to do a test run to see how fingers will act, and they drive to a random residence, eva's home. fingers successfully steals various expensive items, and azro joins the crime group. feeling ashamed of his actions, later that night fingers runs away from azro.