Faced with an early death sentence and struggling to pay the bills, Franz Schubert is inspired to write one of his most famous songs as he is haunted by a Hurdy Gurdy Man in the Vienna of the 1820s.
A group of friends gather to intervene on behalf of a good friend with a noticeable shopping addiction but all is forgotten when the day takes a disastrous turn after everyone receives the same message from an invading Alien race.