Jennifer Niesslein has an okay life. But, dogged by a sense of dissatisfaction and a yearning for something she can't quite name, she embarks on a two-year experiment, taking all manner of self-help advice - from housecleaning to marital to spiritual - in an effort to become a better, happier person. What Niesslein learns is that the road to self-help Nirvana is fraught with peril. She, also, discovers that there is such a thing as the good life - it's just a question of how perfect you have to be to get it.