Carmelita is a young woman who wonders if bad luck is inherited as she drives a car with a dead body in the trunk and a companion beside her in the passenger seat. Her companion does not believe that bad luck runs in families, so Carmelita begins to tell the story of her family and how she got to where she is.
Carmelita explains that her grandfather was Jamaican and was rich from being a number runner, but he lost everything when the national lottery was implemented. Carmelita's mother's family was from Cuba. Her family made money from Cuban sugar plantations, until her mother was 8 years old and on vacation in America when they found out Castro had taken over and they had lost all of their assets. Carmelita's father had worked by selling stolen merchandise, but he had left their family. Her brother joined a gang and went to jail multiple times, and ultimately died of AIDS. Her mother died of grief shortly after.
Carmelita met a boy in a group home that she started dating. One day in the mall, they saw a man giving a glass-blowing demonstration. Carmelita stays behind after and asks him how he has time to make all of the smaller glass figures. He reveals that he buys them from China, and he makes most of his money selling drug paraphernalia. Carmelita offers to help with his business, and he hires her. The business does well, and they start selling weed, which is procured by her boyfriend, with the paraphernalia.
A young hippie woman comes from New York and lives in her RV in the mall parking lot. Carmelita does not like her, but she becomes romantically involved with the Glass Man. Carmelita and her boyfriend break up, so the Glass Man decides that Asmarte, the hippie woman, will take over the weed part of the business. Carmelita is not pleased with the money being split three ways, so she puts rat poison in the kombucha that Asmarte makes. However, she comes home one day to find the Glass Man's dead body.
Asmarte walks in, and calmly decides that they should dump the body together, since the man is heavy. So, the two women travel in their car with the Glass Man in the trunk to a swamp that Carmelita's father used to use for his business deals. The two women exchange stories, and fantasize about making money in their business and retiring in an exotic location. However, a tire gets flat on the car, so the women are forced to pull over. A state trooper pulls over to help them, and lifts the trunk where the body is to get the spare tire.