In this dark surreal comedy Cindy Rossberg has apparently killed her fiance on her wedding day Her psychiatrist encourages her to move forward with her life However as she attempts to do so she finds reality too difficult to contend with as she is bound to the events of the past As she tries to sort things out for herself Cindy spirals into a wacky world of bizarre situations that become increasingly influenced by a murder mystery she is writing In the end Cindy discovers that she must act as her own emancipator in order to free herself from the role she thinks she is expected to play