New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown flophouse he calls home.

A neurotic nebbish lives in 2 worlds: the fantasy of winning his dream-girl via a hit movie, and the meager existence he scrapes out from very odd jobs, such as thesping in an arty no-budget flick. His beautiful object is his next-door neighbor Angelica, who's understandably preoccupied with her own life, as an illegal immigrant and single mom. Aldolpho Rollo's writing his unending masterpiece screenplay from a walk-up NYC flat, in-between peering at debtors through his peephole. AR's hopes to win her love take wing via another angel, a shady high-roller who definitely has the self-confidence, and promises the cash Aldolpho craves, to produce the auteur's vision.—David Stevens

Tormented by insecurity, the creative but impecunious New York City auteur, Aldolpho Rollo, has his back to the wall. Now, unable to make ends meet, Aldolpho has no other choice but to put his voluminous, avant-garde magnum opus, "Unconditional Surrender", up for sale. As a result, he places an ad, and before he knows it, he catches the eye of the benevolent, warm-hearted but shady film producer, Joe, who has a strange way of financing Rollo's ambitious film. Can Joe, the sunny guardian angel, show his clueless protégé a thing or two about life, and how to woo Angelica, Aldolpho's beautiful next-door neighbour?—Nick Riganas