 Louise Harrington, a divorced, thirty-something admission s office at Columbia University s School of Fine Arts is intelligent, pretty, and successful, yet unfulfilled. That is, until a graduate school application crosses her desk and she arranges to interview the young painter. When Scott Feinstadt appears, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Louise s high school boyfriend and one true love, an artist who died in a car accident twenty years earlier. Within hours of the interview, Louise and Scott have embarked on a passionately uninhibited older woman/younger man affair. But is Scott just a reminder of Louise s lost love? And is Scott just trying to wheedle his way into the Ivy League? Adding to the romantic complications is competition from Louise s best friend from high school, Missy, who shows up to claim the affections of the boy; Louise s co-dependent ex-husband Peter; her cynical mother and fresh-out-of-rehab brother.