 It is the early 1980s. Paul Reynolds is the young, wealthy owner of a magnificent house, a host of great parties, and a patron of eccentrics - academics, poets, artists, revolutionaries and libertarians. Lizzie, persuaded to become his secretary, manages to bring some structure to this chaotic, visionary, and hedonistic existence, but Paul s eden seems destined to self-destruct. Lizzie and Paul fall out, but somehow inevitably their paths are set to cross again and again ...