Shunning his white-collar pedigree, Fisher moves to New York City, relishing the opportunity toreinvent himself as a doomed playwright. His romantic delusions are quickly punctured by thepregnancy of his would-be muse, Madame Meticulous, the debaucherous tendencies of hisaltar ego, Partiboy, and the impending destruction of the Hells Kitchen art gallery where heworks, leading him into an abyss of self-doubt, addiction, identity crisis, and isolation.