On the Ceiling tells the story of a young man who wears a chair upside down on his head. He falls in love with a young woman named M line, and soon he and his friends move in with her and her family. They are disappointed by the life they find at M line's, however, and in search of something better they make the collective decision to move to the ceiling of her house, where they expect to find a more orderly, more rational, and less encumbered...