A strange tale in which Richard Sifkitz, an overweight freelance artist, is told by his doctor to lose weight. He paints a mural in his basement and begins to ride his exercise bike infront of it for 2 hours every day. As he begins, he dreams of a workcrew in his painting, but soon realises these are more than figures in a mural - they are workers that are looking after his body. When one of them commits suicide, Richard knows that the other three are coming after him, and are catching up fast!