Il docente universitario e scrittore Bernard, e la sua instancabile moglie, Joan, una scrittrice emergente, hanno posto fine al loro matrimonio. I loro due figli, Walt, 16 e Frank 12, vivranno l’esperienza diversamente: per Walt sarà un'occasione divertente e toccante di maturazione, mentre per Frank sarà un'esperienza difficile e prematura. Le tensioni emotive di questo difficile periodo vengono ritratte in modo abilmente sottile, cogliendo le sfumature di una famiglia che impara a ridefinirsi.

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.

James has a good job, a good home, a good wife, but it isn't enough. Ali is single, single-minded, singularly focused on James. They meet in the same room, in the same hotel. Mariella watches them - unknown, unseen, unheard. She's the hotel cleaner who deals with the debris, the aftermath of their passion. She dreams of a similar life. This has been the pattern for some time, but Ali wants more. James can't give it. He wants to keep it as it is. It starts to play with Ali's head. She schemes and dreams and fantasises. Things start to unravel, but Mariella is used to cleaning up mess. She is thorough; methodical, meticulous.