In Los Angeles, Japanese-American television news executive, Emi, and her lover, Latino journalist Gabriel Balboa, are chasing newsworthy stories of local disaster, including an apocalyptic standstill on the Harbor Freeway and the creation of a new urban social order by homeless population moving into the abandoned cars.
In addition to the mystical orange, the plot includes illegal human organ harvesting in Mexico, a shipment of poisoned oranges from Brazil, a wrestling match between "Super NAFTA" and "El Gran Mojado", a mystical symphony that connects everyone in L.A., and moments in which time and space become distorted.