Bami, escaped from modern slavery in the African cocoa plantations, and his friends from the Portland streets, beautiful Ice Cream and smoldering Lightning, sign spinners all, compete for life and freedom in the first ever sign spinning contest: SPINARAMA. Run by down and out and desperate financier T. Benson, SPINARAMA turns into a mega-event, squashed into a seedy stadium near downtown Los Angeles - ready to explode. While Benson wheels and deals and places bets on his own handpicked contestant, he is watched closely by his honest right hand man, Ernesto Ochoa, and Ernesto's strange assistant, Chum Chum.