In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.

A small-town car thief and his transvestite wife come across an abandoned infant; they amputate his tongue and train him for a life in crime.

A naive young soldier shocks his family when he returns home on leave accompanied by a worldly older woman whom he introduces as his wife. The young man's mother strongly…