The Salton Sea

A young man in Los Angeles presents two sides of himself. On one side, he is Tom Van Allen, a happily married jazz trumpeter. On the other side, he is Danny Parker, a heavily tattooed meth addict - a "tweaker" - traveling in a crowd of fellow tweakers, who he trusts, especially his best friend Jimmy the Finn, in they having the bond of their shared communal activity. Although the connection between the two sides is initially unclear, Tom and Danny are indeed the same person as Danny hides evidence of his Tom life in his apartment closet. While not working against his fellow tweakers, Danny has been coopted by two LAPD Narcs, Al Garcetti and Gus Morgan, as an informant in trying to pull a sting against Pooh-Bear, a psychotic drug supplier who lost his nose through excessive snorting of drugs. What happens with Danny and by association Tom in these situations is affected by Danny's encounters with his new neighbor, Colette Vaughn, who is constantly running from the physical abuse inflicted on her by her Mexican boyfriend, Quincy.