 Paul, a 24-year-old university student, has the fight of his life when his ex-girlfriend, Becky, steals the subject of his thesis: two ficus trees. Becky decides to kill the plants as a symbol of their dying relationship. Things become desperate when Paul realizes that his degenerating health, evidenced by a pernicious rash, is linked to that of the dying tree. As Paul s desperation to regain his trees (and his health) grows, he must resort to any means possible to get the plants from the grasp of Becky and her recently acquired new-age boyfriend.