Hiram Jaffe (Elliott Gould) is a struggling author in New York who writes pornography and walks dogs for the rich in order to make ends meet. He and his wife Dolly (Paula Prentiss) decide to move to a new apartment, hoping it will lead him to finally write a successful fantasy novel. But things go from bad to worse, until Hiram begins to confuse his fantasy world with the real one. Will he ever become a successful author when it seems like the whole crazy world is out to get him?