The main character is Loretta (jewish with a butcher father and 4 ex-husbands) One ex lives in the same hotel and burns his room down and she has to pick out "ears" at Campbells funeral home. All the people in the hotel are having sex and Lorettas neighbor is an oriental man who is tring to have sex with her. She works in the TV industry but takes in laundry cause she likes ironiong shirts