Daisy Beecher is a brilliant and ambitious woman with a PhD, who is waiting anxiously for her partner to come home. She fears that the strange individual who has invaded her home may seek to tickle her, despite her pleas to the contrary. Daisi is dressed sensibly yet fashionably in an oversized button-up shirt and tasteful lingerie underneath. When she is threatened by the possibility of tickling, all of her fears and emotions come to the surface in a maelstrom of uncertainty and dread.