小学老师乔治（Paul Rudd饰）与社工妮娜（Jennifer Aniston饰）在一次社交晚宴上认识，乔治从妮娜那里惊悉自己被同性恋伴侣抛弃的消息，伤心不已。然而除却感情上的打击，他还不得不从同住的家中搬走，一时间毫无着落的他狼狈万分。好心的妮娜让乔治在自己的公寓中暂住，渐渐地，二人成为无所不谈的好朋友。妮娜也正发现自己与男友原来不相衬，尽管已经怀孕，还是果断地分手。妮娜听说乔治中学时曾经与女孩有过性关系后，也想亲身上阵勾引。谁知乔治的男友回头，打断了这一段鸳梦。
然而乔治还是妮娜最理想的、养育自己孩子的父亲。

Meryl Streep早期出演的一个舞台剧。

The plot follows Heidi Holland from high school in the 1960s to her career as a successful art historian more than twenty years later. The play's main themes deal with the changing role of women during this time period, describing both Heidi's ardent feminism during the 1970s and her eventual sense of betrayal during the 1980s. Though most of the characters are women, there are two important male characters; Peter Patrone, a gay pediatrician who is arguably Heidi's best friend, and Scoop Rosenbaum, a magazine editor who marries and has many affairs, and with whom Heidi has a tense friendship.