Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York 1975 Sheila Levine is a Jewish American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania An innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual, she comes to New York City with her mother and father to take an apartment with a nightclub hopping roommate Persuaded to go to a nightclub one night, she meets a doctor named Sam Stoneman who is on the hunt for a one night stand Sheila develops an intense attraction towards Sam who seemingly is attracted to Sheilas desperately flirtatious roommate She returns to Harrisburg for a time and comes back to win the heart of Sam only to discover that he has been conned into an engagement with her ex roommate Meanwhile, stalwart Sheila quickly climbs the ladder at her job as a office singertypist for a record company