When they're not busy reading comics and eating baked beans out of the tin, the terminally unemployed Captain Doobie and Goodtime Slim like to do a bit of cash-in-hand work. This time the job seems easy enough: drive a car from Adelaide to Melbourne (even if it is a Lada). A pity about the mafia. And the pirate. And the milk police. Some days even doing one simple thing is harder than an Unemployment Case Manager's conscience ...