Hitman Trabucco has successfully eliminated two witnesses against the mob; He now has to kill Rudy "Disco" Gambola before his grand jury testimony against his fellow mobsters, but completing the contract becomes difficult once Trabucco encounters Victor Clooney, an emotionally disturbed, suicidal television censor who unintentionally causes a variety of annoying problems for the hitman. Victor is hoping to reconcile with his estranged wife. Trabucco takes a room in the Ramona Hotel in Riverside, California, which is located directly across the street from the courthouse where Gambola is to testify. Trabucco plans on killing Gambola using a sniper rifle.