Empire of Stuff

When 20-year-old Canadian illegal immigrant Gabriel Sleath arrives in Los Angeles to hunt down his lost love, he doesn't expect to find that she's become a porn star and fellow traveller of the MacManus crime family. Or that he himself will found an antiques-dealing empire. Or be sucked into a web of intrigue aimed at the breakup of the United States of America. Gerald Sand's semi-autobiographical comedy thriller takes us on a hilarious and disturbing romp from 1994 down to Day One of California's coming War of Independence.