One morning, Melody "Mel" Wilder (Saffron Burrows) is diagnosed with a terminal illness, fired from her thankless job and abandoned by her boyfriend. With nothing left to lose, given two months to live, she spends her entire life's savings renting an empty palatial loft in the Village. Thinking she'll never have to pay the piper, she lives off her credit cards, fills the loft with the fanciest products, sensually engages both the parcel-delivery man and a pizza delivery girl and teaches herself to play the electric guitar she's craved since childhood. These life affirming experiences transform her irrevocably.

5th Avenue and East 49th Street, Manhattan.

Bethune Street and West Street, Manhattan.

Melody's Apartment, Bank Street and West Street, Manhattan.

Avenue A (btw East 7th Street and St Marks Place) Manhattan.

Tompkins Square Park, East 7th Street and Avenue A, Manhattan.