42-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job he hates, a seventeen-year-old girlfriend (Mariel Hemingway) he doesn't love, and a lesbian ex-wife Jill (Meryl Streep) who's writing a tell-all book about their marriage.
Woody Allen provides the voice for Z-4195 (or "Z" for short"), a solitary ant whose personal struggle with the day-to-day drudgery of a world populated by drones and dullards forces him to become the reluctant leader of a colony-wide revolt against conformity.
The age-old but endlessly fascinating subject of the difficulty of relationships provides the basis for this contemporary comedy/drama set in New York City.