 "The Guitar" is a story of one woman s spiritual, emotional and creative transformation. One morning, "mouse-burger" Melody "Mel" Wilder (Saffron Burrows) is diagnosed with a terminal illness, fired from her thankless job and abandoned by her boyfriend. With nothing left to lose, given two months to live, she spends her entire life s savings renting an empty palatial loft in the Village. Thinking she ll never have to pay the piper, she lives off her credit cards, fills the loft with the fanciest products, sensually engages both the parcel-delivery man (Isaach de Bankole) and a pizza delivery girl (Paz de la Huerta) and teaches herself to play the electric guitar she s craved since childhood. These life affirming experiences transform her irrevocably.