Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly duckling since she was a child. Natalie has never believed that she will grow up to be beautiful, despite her mother's assurances. She finds a position at the Topless Bottom Club after renting a Greenwich Village flat from an eccentric landlord. She commutes to work on a motorcycle, decorates her loft with a moose head, and gets to her apartment through a dumbwaiter. Natalie meets an artist named David there, and the two fall in love before Natalie realizes he is married.