Patti Lyon, a resident of a small town in Southern California who left her native San Francisco after a divorce, is not inclined to complain about life. She teaches gymnastics classes, participates in television quiz shows, where she earns very decent money, and is generally happy with her small house with cheap furniture and batik curtains. But... an unsuccessful encounter with a certain subject in the corridor of the city council and a fall on worn-out linoleum radically change the established order of her life.