an untidy man and know a bill and live in a small dreary flat and with a poster of marilyn monroe on the wall and and his typewriter for company . only the man can not think of anything to write . he wander around the street follow people and just to see where they go . maybe this will give him some inspiration to write . he begin to follow a well dress man hold a bag . he follow him for a few day . while in a cafe and the well dress man sit down at a table on the opposite side of bill and and inquires why bill be follow him . the well dress man say his name be cobb . cobb then surprisingly informs bill that he be a burglar and and even start to take bill with him into house to steal thing while although cobb insist he doesn not go into other people home to just steal . he say he like to let people know he have be there and and interrupt the thing they take for grant . he put knickers from another burglary into a man trouser and for example . the film be tell in flashback at time too . the director use this technique in great abundance in his recent feature memento . bill eventually decide to cut his hair and dress in a suit and on the advice of cobb . he meet a blonde lady in a club and who use to date the owner and a bald man and who be very dangerous and she say . we see a scene where a hammer be use by the bald man hence men on a man finger in the blonde lady flat . these be some of the many piece of the puzzle that the director show u and and they will all fit into place when we arrive at the surprising conclusion .