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Oliver Mls is a stand-up comedian who makes his real living as a third-shift security safeguard at an traditional Nashville hotel. Every morning on his way home from work, he ceases to have breakfast with his mother, although it has been six years since she's regarded her only son. In search of his true comic speech, Oliver experiments with the juxtaposition of both highbrow and lowbrow laughter, alternating between the cerebral, sarcastic, surreal, and inane. One night, an impromptu rant on connections transforms excruciatingly personal and Oliver locates himself reduced to noiseless tears onstage. The audience finds this amusing. Oliver locates it humiliating, yet cathartic; then later resolves to only tell the truth in his function. As he becomes more enamored with Mattie Holmgren, the hotel's night auditor, he discovers her sneaking into guest rooms in the middle of the night. Eventually, his infatuation for the adorable kleptomaniac haunting the hotel he's been hired to safeguard becomes fodder for his stand-up function. His lack of sleep, combined with realization that the only place they can be totally honest is in a room full of strangers, incorporate to stoke his greatest fear: Oliver is turning into his mother. As his romance with Mattie commences to blossom, it becomes clear he won't be able to keep her from his shows forever. Oliver must eventually come clean - to see if the truth really will established him free. As standard, he determines to do it from the stage... on the biggest nights his job... and with Mattie Holmgren seeing.
