Roy is a wreck of a love-starved mailman ruled by curiosity, a mean streak and a mighty ability to find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. He has no respect for others’ privacy or property, suffers from an acute lack of professional ethics, steals mail, insults his few friends and colleagues and lives a dump of a studio apartment where, for the third time in three years, his Polish neighbour is renovating his apartment with a jackhammer.

But one day something happens on Roy’s appointed rounds. A young woman forgets her keys in the mailbox. After a barely noticeable moment’s hesitation, he goes up to the apartment and unlocks the door. As soon as he steps over the threshold, his life takes a different turn …