The Horror of Dolores Roach is a grotesque Sweeney Todd-inspired tale of Eat or Be Eaten; a macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest. It follows the indomitable Dolores Roach, who returns to a New York City neighborhood that has changed drastically during the sixteen years she has been in prison. Her boyfriend missing, her family long gone, Dolores is recognized only by an old stoner friend, Luis, who gives Dolores room and board and lets her give massages for cash in the basement apartment under his dilapidated empanada shop.
When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, ‘Magic Hands Dolores’ is driven to extremes to survive — leaving in her wake a string of strangled massage clients. In the face of unexpected professional success, Dolores and Luis become dangerously symbiotic, and Luis must unleash his own particular predilections.
Ecrivain de 40 ans, Adrien Winckler à connu, sous le pseudonyme de Mody, une gloire éphémère à la parution de son premier roman. Mais depuis, l'inspiration s'est tarie et il se confronte à l'angoissant syndrome de la page blanche. Pour subsister, il exerce la profession de "nègre pour inconnus", rédigeant, contre une somme forfaitaire, le roman d'anonymes qui considèrent que leur vie vaut bien un livre.
C'est ainsi qu'il se fait embaucher par Albert Desiderio, modeste retraité, atteint d'une terrible maladie rénale, qui compte bien employer le peu de temps qu'il lui reste à raconter sa vie...