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Synopsis |
 Seven
very different people are gathered in a brightly lit but sparsely furnished
white room. The only thing they have in common is Virgil Guppy. Virgil isn't
there, having just been flattened by a ten tonne truck. Virgil's odyssey
unfolds as the seven wait in the white room.Virgil Guppy is going to buy a car. Not just any car, but a luxury car. This is more than a simple deal. Virgil is not just buying a car, he is buying the last piece of the jigsaw that, with the flat, the job, the wardrobe, the girlfriend, fit together to make up what Virgil hopes is his identity. Virgil buys the Jaguar, low mileage but slightly damaged bodywork, from David Leer and his son Buddy, two clearly dodgy dealers. Sure enough, within four miles the car dies quite spectacularly. Virgil fails to reclaim his money through the courts and, worse still, his car came with the optional extra of a dead body hidden in the boot. Virgil is arrested for murder and an impressive array of circumstantial evidence is presented by witnesses as varied as Sydney Greengrass, a retired accountant who has the unnerving habit of hitching his curiously shaped trousers up way past the nipple line, and Poppy Fields, a middle-aged prostitute fast reaching her sell-by date. Virgil is convinced he has been framed by David Leer; and David Leer seems to have completely disappeared. Once out on bail, Virgil's jigsaw starts to fall apart. He loses his job, and his girlfriend Fiona, walks out on him into the arms of his cruelly charismatic best friend, Alex. Virgil, for his part, walks out into the path of a fast moving stolen car. Finding himself on the run, Virgil falls in with the group of car thieves whose car knocked him down; there's the incurably ill, enigmatic thief called Tiffany Shades; her ten year old son Dolittle, who would like to be the first black doctor in space; and Legal, the baby-sitter. Virgil's idyllic sabbatical into this criminal underworld is cut short when David Leer turns up dead Virgil goes on the run again, sure of only two things: he was not framed by Leer but has obviously been so beautifully framed he might as well be a Picasso. Virgil seeks solace in the arms of Tiffany and promises to look after Dolittle after she dies, a promise lightly given until he learns how seriously ill she is. Hunted for two murders, pursued by Buddy Leer, hell bent on revenging his father and faced with the prospect of losing his one and only friend since all this began, Virgil has little choice but to find out who framed him and get back his life. He does not have much to go on but, through a combination of luck and tragic circumstance, oddly unconventional work on the part of the pursuing police and by doing a little framing of his own with some clever body work, Virgil is able to uncover his enemy. In the final showdown, in a scrap yard somewhere at the edge of town, Virgil proves his innocence and is run over by a ten tonne truck. |
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