Sleeping on a mattress beside the main highway into Tel Aviv, rising at nightfall to collect bottles for recycling, Patrick has known better times. Once he was a promising sous chef in a popular restaurant. Now, his life is ruled by alcohol and heroin in a world enthralled with superficial glamor and success, and blind to its casualties. With a winter thunderstorm approaching, Patrick, shares the dream that keeps him going ― a journey to America to become a hurricane hunter.