It’s Hard to Be Rich

A struggling writer moves into a crumbling apartment building looking for peace and quiet, but he can't get away from the building's evil history or stop thinking about his murdered wife. The place is full of hidden secrets and a spooky song that pulls him—and viewers—into a story about losing his mind and people dying.

When writer Stephen Brooks rents a room in a dingy, dilapidated building, the meddlesome superintendent, Hilda, can’t understand why such an obviously wealthy man would tolerate such a seedy place. Her suspicions are further aroused by his complaints that he’s being bothered by the piano playing of Jenny Cartwright, who, Hilda knows, had lived there before she was murdered almost a century ago. Hilda takes her worries to the police, who look up Brooks’ file and discover that he was the prime suspect in the recent murder of his wife, who was also named Jenny.

In a rundown apartment building, a troubled writer seeks solitude but finds it impossible to escape the echoes of its dark past and the haunting memory of his wife’s murder. The air is thick with unspoken secrets and a ghostly melody that leads him—and the audience—through a tale of madness and death.