A young woman, struggling with agoraphobia, hasn’t left her New York apartment or seen anyone in over a year. However, when her toilet overflows she is forced to call in the plumber.

A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he’s stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.

After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.

Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like “anything else,” but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn’t like anything else at all.