Sheila Levine – an innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual – arrives in New York City to take an apartment with a partygoing roommate. There, she experiences love and heartache in equal measure.

Jeannie Berlin
as Sheila Levine

Roy Scheider
as Sam Stoneman

Rebecca Dianna Smith
as Kate Christianson

Janet Brandt
as Bernice Levine

Sid Melton
as Manny Levine

Charles Woolf
as Wally

Leda Rogers
as Agatha

Evelyn Russell
as Miss Burke

Jack Bernardi
as Uncle Herm

Allen Secher
as Rabbi