35-year-old Morris Bliss is clamped firmly in the jaws of New York City inertia- no money, no job prospects, and sharing an apartment with his father, who treats him with disdain. When he finds himself juggling a bizarre relationship with the sexually precocious 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate and the advances of his very forward neighbor, Morris begins to realize that even though his life is unraveling, it's also opening up in ways that are long overdue.