Clementine Pritchard is a talented artist who is about to have a show in a prestigious east coast gallery. Only problem is, she plans to kill herself before the show ends so decides to give the space to someone else. Clementine has been fighting mental illness, similar to that her mother fought and lost, for many years and has been on so many prescriptions that make her feel worse just to keep the dark days at bay that she decides the only way around the same fate as her mother is to kill herself now before she involves too many people in her personal version of hell. Clementine then sets about tidying up her affairs: she fires her assistant Jenny, her therapist Miles; she sleeps with her ex-husband Richard and her therapist Miles; she finds a home for her cat Chuckles who is as opinionated as she and crosses to Tijuana to secure some animal tranquilizers to assist her in her quest. She also has some of the best take out she has ever had as she eats her way through Los Angeles. Along the way, Clementine creates some of her best artwork ever, good stuff, she thinks, for her postmortem retrospective. Clementine also decides to look for the father who left her and her family and instead of a final good-bye, he sheds light on a secret that changes the way Clementine looks at her life and may even save it. A dark comedy, Clementine is the nonsense, practical person inside each of us, but also that person that wants to heal and forget the sadness in our lives, and even to forgive so that we are no longer afraid of just being. Clementine’s honesty is refreshing, if sometimes abrasive, toward others and especially toward herself.
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