After making a bad decision about which printer technology to buy for her small business, Emma Metzger goes bankrupt and gets stuck with an apartment full of obsolete printers. Embarrassed about her failed entrepreneurship and depressed about her dead-end waitressing job, Emma lies to her ex-boyfriend that she has an art exhibit coming up soon. When the fake exhibit gets publicized in a cutting-edge magazine, Emma decides to ask her restaurant co-workers to help her put it on for real. They have thirty days to turn their hole-in-the-wall deli, "Petite Ravioli" into a gallery for one spectacular evening.