The film begins with an apathetic Bill Murray, finding himself dumped by his latest girlfriend (Julie Delpy), an event followed soon after by the arrival of an unsigned note from a former flame, warning him that the son he never knew about it is now looking for him. Enthusiastically spurred on by his friend, the aspiring mystery writer Winston (played by the incomparable Jeffrey Wright), Johnston narrows down a list of suspects from his past, and visits them in sequence while looking for inane clues suggested by Winston (e.g. a typewriter ribbon, the color pink).
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