Mel is a well-paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm, which has suddenly hit the skids, and he gets the axe. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment being paper-thin, allowing him a constant ear-full of his neighbors' private lives, things can't seem to get any worse...Then he's robbed, and his psychiatrist dies with lots of his money.…