This is the story of two boyhood friends. Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and create a new kind of family.