Philip Marlow is a man divested of all his dignity. After twenty years of suffering, his psoriatic arthritis has erupted to such an extent that he can no longer move without excruciating pain, his skin is covered in hideous pustules, and his out-of-control body temperature sometimes causes hallucinations (for example, that a cat has crawled under the bedclothes and is methodically chewing off his toes). He is now hospitalized for treatment, alternately patronized and ignored by the medical staff, and physically is as helpless as a baby--except for one part of his anatomy that is embarrassingly functional, especially when pretty young nurse Mills must apply ointment all around it. At such moments, his hallucinations offer hope of a momentary retreat, usually into production numbers lip-synced to popular song recordings of the 1940s.
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