Set in disparate parts of Los Angeles, Chicken uproariously, grievously, related the collision and inevitably ruinous paths of two incendiary firgures. One is the once beautiful and very famous Parnell Wilde, a maverick actor arrogant in his disastrous fall. The other is Annabel Wrath, a much younger, idiosyncratic cult filmmaker with contradictory motives for seeking the older man out. The two are profoundly altered by their meeting and its harrowing denouement, and manage to save each other from their paths of torment and dizzying spirals of decline. But when Parnell is offered the chance to perform in Ultraviolence, the sequel to the feature film that made him famous - and to work again with its brilliant but merciless director - he and Annabel are forced to wrestle with their fractured pasts as the extreme, fleeting, and dangerous world of fame threatens to divide them.