After another weekend of not doing anything of value, Valerie, a 25-year old librarian is prepared to spend another sleepless night alone in her drab London bedsit. As the hours slowly crawl by, she tries each of her usual tricks to lull her mind, but her problems and worries, not to mention her noisy neighbors, keep pulling her back to reality. As sleep does not want to come and morning approaches, slowly her old resentments start to bubble up, she is overcome by depression thinking back how she always hated school and her French literature course; how big of a blow was for her when she failed her thesis dissertation on bird symbols in Proust; how she tried in vain to break into the art world; how money always eluded her, and how she hates her job, her cold mother, her vulgar father and all of the prospects life can offer her. But most of all, she regrets how her friendships have gone sour, and while her friends can bravely carry on and succeed on life's battlefield, she is slowly left behind, disgusted by the compromises she has to make, but jealous of their charisma and confidence.