Marty Apostrophes and Bill Brown are from opposite sides of the tracks, but their friendship allows them to overcome bullies and scrape through classes (with Bill doing the lions share of the scraping). Bills obsession with the classic cars owned by Martys family leads to a joyride in a 1937 Cord 812 Sportsman, and the accidental foiling of a robbery which is caught on video by their friend, aspiring teen reporter Elizabeth Murphy. The video goes viral, and Marty and Bill or at least, their accidental alter egos, Nothing Man and the Purple Zero become instant celebrities.