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.

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.

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.