A novelist, hospitalized with severe psoriasis, reworks his first book in his mind while struggling with paranoia and creative outbursts, blurring the lines between himself and his protagonist, a detective solving a 1950s Los Angeles murder case.

The Singing Detective
A writer, confined to his bed due to a debilitating skin condition, becomes trapped in a dreamlike world of vivid imagination, where elaborate musical numbers and sinister plot twists ensue.