Gwen grows up with her romantic mother constantly telling her the story of her courtship and marriage to her father. Nick grows up with an alcoholic father who can&♯39;t hold a job and whose family, as a result, is forced to move all the time. The two are shaped by this - Gwen a romantic and Nick withdrawn, unsure of himself - as they watch the hugely popular sixties sitcom, "One Big Happy Family." Years later, it is the star of that show, now a child actor gone bad with a history of detox and people always saying, "I thought she was dead," Francesca Lanfield, who connects the two of them, after years of near-misses and almost encounters. Gwen is hired to ghost-write Francesca&♯39;s autobiography, while Nick, becoming her lover, is the architect who is to design a building on Francesca&♯39;s property. When Gwen decides to crusade to save Francesca&♯39;s building, she writes letters to the newspaper which catches Nick&♯39;s attention - and wins his heart.
