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Mel Edison is a well-paid executive who has been sacked from a high-end Manhattan corporation that has gone bankrupt. Edna, his wife, obtains a job to help them make ends meet, but she too is dismissed. Things can't seem to get much worse...until he's robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money, aggravated by air pollution killing his plants and the apartment walls being paper-thin, allowing him to hear his neighbors' intimate lives all the time. Mel does the only logical thing he can think of: he suffers a nervous breakdown, which turns out to be the best thing that has ever happened to hi