Todd Allison is the next-door neighbor of Petunia Elkwood, a broke yet perky young lady who also goes to the same newspaper collage club as Todd. Petunia is oddly intrigued by Todd, and in fact refers to him as "the only interesting thing in [her] city". Todd asks Petunia to deliver a letter after the post office is bombed by the serial terrorist 'Violet'; Petunia is followed by Todd to make sure the job gets done. And things just get progressively weirder and awesome from there.