Buffalo, New York. Thirty-something Billy Brown has led a relatively unsatisfying life so far. His happiest times spent at the bowling alley, a game at which he is good. Many of his issues in life are associated with a passion for the Bills, his passion for the local team passed down from his obsessed mother Jan Brown. His father Jimmy's passive-aggressiveness has also been passed down to Billy, a key attribute in his personality. The Bills are indirectly related to his five year stint in prison, from which he has just been released. On this his first day out Billy has two general tasks to accomplish: to visit his parents, and to murder the person he blames for his incarceration. Billy never did tell his parents about being in prison, having told them that he works out of town for the federal government and that he is married. He intends to keep up the ruse when he visits them, telling them that "Wendy" is not feeling well and is at the hotel. When he is forced to produce Wendy, Billy kidnaps a young woman with whom he has a chance encounter, to pretend to be Wendy. She is twenty-eight year old Layla. Billy's time with Layla and another chance encounter with a person who is arguably the largest source of his unhappiness may factor into what happens to Billy on this day, and whether he is destined for another longer stint in prison for murder.