Mel Edison is a well-paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm, which has suddenly hitthe skids, and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she toois sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of theapartment being paper-thin (allowing him a constant ear-full of his neighbor's privatelives), things can't seem to get any worse...Then he's robbed and hispsychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do:he has a nervous break-down. And it's the bestthing that ever happened to him...