Plot summary

Being more than twice her age, the dissatisfied, twice-divorced, and borderline neurotic TV comedy writer, Isaac Davis, is already starting to feel a bit uncomfortable in his relationship with the seventeen-year-old drama student, Tracy. Then, as if things weren't complicated enough, against the backdrop of endless and futile attempts to write a novel, and George Gershwin's music, Mary, the high-strung intellectual and insecure mistress of Isaac's married best friend, Yale, enters the picture, and little by little, disdain turns into an affair. But, relationships have always been difficult for Davis, and as a costly alimony payout, an in-depth exposé, and a painful breakup get in the way of a fresh start, suddenly, Isaac finds himself back to square one. Can he rediscover himself in the hustle and bustle of Manhattan?—Nick Riganas