Nerdy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller), a maladroit busboy in a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the trendy spectacle , tries to woo his beautiful coworker, Carla (Barboura Morris), by creating a break of her. After his klutziness results in the death of the landlady's cat, he panics and hides the body. But when Carla and her friends enthuse within the subsequent art, Walter decides to make some more and bigger bits employing the process that is artistic.