#and someone doesn't look like a used car salesman from vegas

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Could we get a similar synopsis of Dustland Fairytale please?

hahaha YES!

It's the late 1980s in a trailer park in the southwest of the US. 21 year old Jolene Jones has decided that today, her birthday, is the day that she's had enough. She's had a tough upbringing, she never knew who her father was, her mother is a violent alcoholic and only gotten worse ever since things ended things with Dwayne, her used car salesman boyfriend, five years ago. Dwayne had a bit of a thing for teenage Jolene, enough that her mother got jealous of her, and since then things have been pretty messy at home.

Jolene has been saving money for a long time, and she has a plan of action.

She doesn't have a whole lot to her name, but she has a few thousand dollars, some brochures about Fabulous Las Vegas and a number she secured of a private investigator, Lou. The plan is straight forward. She'll meet with Lou in Vegas and he'll help her like he said he would. She's looking for her brother. Social services came and took him away years ago, and now she wants to be reunited.

She finds somewhere to stay and gets a job in the kitchen of a filthy diner. Dish duty! There she meets Caroline, the worst woman to ever walk the earth, and it's totally her fault that someone found a toenail in their salad. Caroline takes a shine to Jolene though, and soon they get up to all sorts together.

Including robbing a mans wallet and dividing out the cash, then trying to steal a car radio and failing, then getting arrested. Oops!

Jolene, who wasn't actually caught doing anything, is let off with a warning but Caroline, who has seen the inside of the police station more times than her own kitchen, has to be bailed out. Jolene ends up having to fork over her own money to help, meaning that her savings are already dwindling and she's been set back on her mission to find her brother.

Caroline and Jolene pivot away from the crime angle and try their hand at writing a hit song for some performer in town. It's a stupid idea, and they try to rhyme Stiletto with Spaghetti-O.

Jolene gets promoted to waitress, even though she's shit at her job, but it's only because one of the others is on leave for scandalous reasons. She' hears the whole story about how Candy got pregnant, but she's not sure that her boyfriend is the father. Apparently it's a guy called Nash Buckley who got her knocked up. What a name. She wears Candy's uniform and totally fucks up everything. She's a terrible waitress.

Jolene, armed with her shitty song, heads downtown to try and, like, sell it to someone or some shit! She quickly realises she doesn't know what she's doing, but then suddenly! Serendipity! Nash Buckley's name is there in lights! He's performing tonight at a country music dive on the outskirts of town. Jolene argues with the security at the stage door and claims to be Candy (even though she is clearly not 7 months pregnant). She wrangles her way in and meets Nash Buckley in the hallway.

You're not Candy, he says. No, Jolene says, but I have an opportunity for you. See I've written this song and maybe you could buy it from me! He's not that interested, but he placates her because he's a bit of a sleaze and he thinks she's pretty. He tells her she can come into his dressing room for a lil chat and maybe he'll think about looking at her little song.

There's another performer on stage, Jolene can hear him singing, and while Nash is trying to woo her or whatever Jolene is looking around the dressing room. She notices the other performer has left a jacket draped over a chair, and in the pocket is his wallet. She waits for Nash to be distracted by something and swiftly plucks the wallet out. She says that something has come up and she suddenly has to go. She flees the scene before Nash can figure out what's happened.

For some reason this mystery guy, J.V, as were the initials sewn into the collar of his velvet jacket, has two thousand fucking dollars on her person, and now Jolene has every cent of it on hers. She calls up Lou and arranges an appointment with him. She finally has enough money to get this private investigator thing going!

Except she doesn't. Lou changes his tune and says that for um... reasons, he suddenly needs four thousand dollars instead. Goddamn. Jolene goes back to the diner to try and scrounge up more tips.

A customer complains that there's a hair floating in his coffee, so Jolene goes to sort it out when she realises the complainer is Nash Buckley. Ugh! He convinces her to sit with him and then starts asking her about the missing money. You took that from my friend, he says. I know it was you.

He says his friend is going to get her for this, I guess he's just showing up to scare her. He tosses a few dimes at her as a tip and leaves.

Meanwhile a mystery man starts showing up around town.... He's totally creepy but he gives Jolene a big tip so she's fine with it. Unfortunately not sharing tips is a policy in this godforsaken restaurant, and Jolene's fellow waitresses kick up a fuss about it to the point that Jolene gets fired. Oops!

And then just when things can't get worse a man shows up asking for his money back. Nash said I'd find you here, he says, I think you have money that belongs to me. Jolene runs away as fast as she can.

For some reason Jolene thinks it will be a good idea to move in with Caroline, the worst woman on earth. Her apartment somehow isn't gross though! On her first night Jolene has a nightmare though, and it's that she's back home in the trailer park, it's a disturbing memory of Dwayne, her mothers boyfriend, assaulting her in the dark.

Anyway, Nash is somehow fucking Caroline now. I guess he just really likes waitresses from the diner that leaves hairs in his coffee.

While hanging out and smoking inside (it's the 80s) Nash tells Jolene that she better pay his friend back OR ELSE. He says his friend is called Jack, and he's super pissed off about getting robbed in that dressing room! She better cough it up.

Jolene confesses that she really can't afford to give it back, there are important life things at stake here! And her brother is missing! Nash tells her that he can get her a job at a cabaret in town, and that she's pretty enough to work there. The only catch is that she'll have to take her clothes off for gross men. Oh well.

He's a gross man too so maybe he's giving her a taste of the new life she could have, but he tries to kiss her while Caroline is passed out drunk in a chair beside them. Cool!

Jolene gets a job at the cabaret and becomes friends with another girl who works there - Nadine, a total beauty queen. She's street smart too, and wise. She warns Jolene that Nash might be trying to get into her pants, and that she should keep her wits about her because he's a slippery lil bastard. Trust no one in this town!

Doesn't matter though, Nash and Jolene get drunk on cocktails and make out, and nobody cares about what Caroline might say, because she defo won't find out. He tries to take things further and get romantic in the bathroom but Jolene is too drunk and she just ends up getting cosy with the toilet instead.

after a rude awakening from Caroline, Jolene showers quickly and heads in for her first day at her new job. The uniform is crazy. It's literally underwear lmao. She learns that Nash's friend Jack comes in sometimes, and begins to nervously wonder if this whole thing was a set up by Nash. Maybe he really is a slippery, sneaky bastard like Nadine said he was.

Jolene and Nadine go out to a club where they meet Nash. He talks to Jolene and decides to get offended when he learns that she doesn't remember much from the night before. He rants about how she doesn't actually like him and how she was just using him and it was the alcohol that made out with him, not her. She feels super bad, and he convinces her to go somewhere quiet to talk it out.

aaaand they go to his apartment and drink beers.

and kiss

and almost have sex but Jolene doesn't want to! Nash is totally uncool about this obviously lol!

Nash hangs out with his horrible friends, including Jack who is, spoiler alert, not actually horrible. Nash goes on and on about his pretty new girlfriend and how nice she is and then when Jack presses him on who she is he lies. I guess he's not trying to set Jolene up for failure after all.

Back home Jolene admits to Caroline that she's been seeing Nash. Caroline freaks out and gets super mad, not because they've been seeing the same man, but because Jolene is like, way too good for Nash! What was she thinking! She vows to go beat the shit out of him.

which she does!!! lmao go Cazza. Nash is furious with Jolene for telling Caroline, and basically twists everything so that she looks like the villain while he is an innocent victim who totally didn't manipulate a naive girl. He slams the door in her face.

Time moves on and summer ends and the creep starts showing up and Jolene's new work. Is he following her? (yes)

Anyway, on the same night the boys are out getting smashed. Nash, who is still hurt over Jolene, decides to become a rat bastard and tell Jack that he's going to get his money back tonight. The girl who took it works at the cabaret in town.

Too bad Nash get's alcohol poisoning before he can ruin her life. Jolene hauls him to a hotel across the street and tries to bring him to. He's unconscious. She calls an ambulance, convinced he's dead, but unfortunately he isn't.

At the hospital, once he's okay again, Jolene asks Nash why he tries to rat her out to Jack and ruin her life, to which he says "i was mad at you." O K. He manipulates her into going out with him again, and by the end of the chapter they are an item.

Two horrible creepy & ugly men have a boring meeting in the cabaret office. One, the owner of a magazine for men, wants to look for new models who are going to get butt naked for the new edition. Idk why he came to this musty dusty cabaret to look, but this is just what happens idk. They decide to send Jolene. Fun! She agrees to do it because she'll get a butt load of money to.

I'll have to make a part 2