Plot

Abe Lincoln's really a girl.

In this dark, surreal comedy, Cindy Rossberg has apparently killed her fiance on her wedding day. Her psychiatrist encourages her to move forward with her life. However, as she attempts to do so she finds reality too difficult to contend with as she is bound to the events of the past. To cope, she starts envisioning the situations and people around her exactly as she feels about them and fictionalizes her past. As things progress, she finds herself haunted by her childhood self dressed in an Abraham Lincoln costume and her dead fiance who enjoys drinking red wine and singing to her in public parks. On top of this, she is convinced to write an article on dating over 35 for her very successful and happily married childhood nemesis, who played John Wilkes Booth opposite her Abraham Lincoln in a play in grammar school. As she tries to sort things out for herself, Cindy spirals into a wacky world of bizarre situations that become increasingly influenced by a murder mystery she is writing.

In the end, Cindy discovers that she must act as her own emancipator in order to free herself from the role she thinks she is expected to play.