During a split in his affair with Rashida, an attractive psychotherapist who has earlier moved with him from north LA to eastern Virginia, script-writer Lance Garnett, meets Lisa Birdsong, an academic with a husband 20 years her elder. When Rashida, whose distinguished family live in DC exile, desires to make up with him, it becomes difficult for him to find an emotional balance that permits his friends to come and go as they work on their own profound problems and write their own scripts.
