It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. So far, so good, "Ya can't sit there all day, buddy, looking up peoples's skirts!'chides a weird gal in a coat like a duvet - Mimi! She kindly conjures form him the miracle of a taxi. Recuperating in his apartment with Schubert, Bette Davis and a foundling cat. Harrisons adds items to his life"s work: a List of Melancholy Things: Walmart, puppetry, Velcro, whale eyes, shrimp -eating contests... Then Mimi reappears, with all her curves and chaos. She and Harrison fall emphatically in loven. And, as their love-making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air.
