The Annihilation of Fish

Obediah Fish is an aging Jamaican who —having no wife, children, or job— develops the fantasy that his meaning in life at the end of his days is to wrestle the devil and keep him at bay. When he is de-institutionalized moves into Mrs. Muldroone’s building, where he meets Poinsettia, who is herself recovering from a fantasy romance with the dead composer Puccini. As neighbours, Fish and Poinsettia soon fall in love under the benign gaze of Mrs. Muldroone.