Baldur, ein junger, aalglatter Unternehmer aus Deutschland, hat sich darauf spezialisiert, Autoren ihre Ideen und Stoffe zu stehlen. Während einer Geschäftsreise in die USA verliebt er sich in eine junge Frau. Wegen ihr vernachlässigt Baldur seinen zwielichtigen Beruf und verliert schließlich auch die Kontrolle über sein Leben - mit fatalen Folgen. Baldur stielt Schriftstellern ihre Ideen und verkauft diese. Eines Tages führt ihn sein zwielichtiger Job nach Hawaiian Gardens, eine Trabantenstadt im Großraum Los Angeles. Dort trifft er den 70-jährigen Shulzov, der bereits den Kultroman "Dog$hit" geschrieben hat. Shulzov soll Baldurs nächstes Opfer werden. Doch die junge Rosa zieht den Copyright-Piraten alsbald in ihren Bann. Dabei ahnt Baldur nicht, dass die Begegnung sein Leben für immer verändern wird.

Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.

The story of a strange man who owns a self-storage facility and lives in a reality of his own until reality comes crashing down.