Joe carries around a rusty saw and a gasoline tank. No one quite knows why but there are a number of women who have gone missing in the area. Joe doesn't socialize very well and his only true friend is an imaginary one he calls "Charlie Nubbins" who guzzles beer and quotes Bible scripture. Mostly, Joe is lonely and spends a lot of his time writing poems about his brutal life as a cabbie, and his family's dark mysterious past. He may or may not be a murderer but when he reads his poetry at the Limerick theatre, he affects people in all walks of life.