The plot revolves around Richard Bean (Kline), a Broadway star known for his egotism, who experiences a public breakdown and retreats to his hometown. After returning to the family-run theater where he first discovered his talent, he finds his father, the former artistic director, suffering from dementia. The theater, now reduced to a dinner theater serving murder mysteries, is run by his brother (Tenney) and sister-in-law, who is also the town’s mayor. Determined to restore the theater’s former glory, Richard plans to stage a great American classic, with himself as director and star, in an effort to save both the theater and the town.
A film examining the consequences of a neighbour’s death on Maria, one of the women living in the building. Soon after her interrogation by the police, Maria finds herself in charge of the funeral. Entangled in this Kafkaesque situation, everything seems to go wrong in Maria’s life as a pervasive, nerve-racking feeling that she’s haunted by the late neighbour continually eats a...