It stars Saffron Burrows as a woman who decides to pursue her dreams after being diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend.

[1] One morning, "mouse-burger" Melody "Mel" Wilder is diagnosed with laryngeal cancer, then fired from her thankless job and abandoned by her boyfriend.

With nothing left to lose, and given only two months to live, she spends her entire life's savings to rent a palatial loft in Greenwich Village.

Thinking she'll never have to pay the landlord, she lives off her credit cards, and fills the loft with high-priced products.

She seduces both the parcel-delivery man and a pizza delivery girl and teaches herself to play the electric guitar she's romanticized since childhood.