Aging record producer, Nick Silver sets out to prove he’s still relevant by curating a playlist with multiple artists instead of an album with one artist. When his doctor tells him he’ll be deaf in three months, he panics and begins speaking his memoirs into a video camera in bathroom mirrors all over Los Angeles.

A radio talk show host unravels a conspiracy about encounters with mysterious beings known as The Shadow People and their role in the unexplained deaths of several hundred victims in the 1980s.