The coincidence cross fates of five characters in a hotel room in New York. A newlyweds couples discussing, a touring magician requesting the services of a prostitute, a voyeur photographer that is silent witness to the fight of a couple on the street and a journalist who is going to kill himself because he made public his penchant for crossdressing.

Josh visits Thomas and occupies his home. Josh assumes Thomas' identity and usurps Thomas' acquaintances descending into a total hell only the most hapless can create- finding that one cannot "float" through life on "hot air" alone.