An Idiot's Guide to Getting By follows a couple of down on their luck twenty-somethings who are less than content at the cards life has dealt them.
After dramatically leaving his job, the main character despairs at his inability to find a replacement job.
By chance he overhears a conversation describing a particular mobster's preferred methods of 'interrogation'.
Later when a body turns up killed in a similar fashion to what he heard, he convinces his similarly destitute fr.