While on a promotional tour for her novel, Maggie Mulroney receives an invitation to visit her old high school boyfriend. Her interactions with Jim and his wife (also named Maggy) triggers bouts of uncomfortable self-analyses and awakenings. New York Magazine describes that through her journey "life and art come fluidly to interact as Maggie's instinct for the fictitious collides with a new-found yearning to relate to life with the immediacy of her newest, closest friend."