Teddy was born into poverty and spent his entire adult life trying to achieve success. Now he is a talented cabinetmaker who dreams of clearing the world of ugliness and bad taste. Harriet is a once flamboyant woman who now amuses herself by calling young repairmen to her home and enticing them to have sex. Francine is a college student who, as a child, experienced the terrible spectacle of her mother's murder, and is now trying to escape from the hateful tutelage of her stepmother. It would seem, what could connect these people? Nevertheless, fate brought them together in the most bizarre way, under one roof, and one of them had to die...