 A failed-poet-turned-fashion-editor is slowly losing his sight and desires nothing more than to be left alone and return to his writing. Unfortunately, he is married to the world s most beautiful woman, which entails a certain amount of hobnobbing. In defiance of all the superficiality that surrounds him, he suddenly stops talking, citing various medical reasons, and vows to "let his silence speak for him," but when he finally loses his vision, he becomes somewhat of a mute. When his wife doesn t seem to mind, and the magazine he writes for lets him keep his job, he proceeds to turn his fashion column into a revolutionary call to arms.