Donna Farmers life has become so disheveled she is actually beginning to look forward to menopause. Sliding into half a century of failure, the face of time is telling her to be happy with a rent controlled apartment and a few cats...possibly a dog. But her alcoholic friend Karen has other plans and a night of drunken mistakes leads to an unexpected detour from the usual rut that is her life. With no kids, no husband and no career she has nothing to lose. Sometimes a life of disappointment can have an upside, when "up" is the only direction left