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