Musician Robert is a perpetual starving artist with low overhead and minimal commitments. When Roberts daughter announces that shes engaged, he advises her against it – his own marriage to Emily didnt last, and he doesnt understand why anyone would want to give up their independence. Yet when Robert and Emily reunite and dredge up old memories and hurts, both discover they have a lot of unresolved issues and that love, marriage and divorce arent quite as simple as theyd like.