 Set in Chicago, Rick Sammler is a divorced architect who meets Lily Manning, an about-to-be divorced on-line salesperson whom both find a lot of comfort with each other and they soon begin a romantic courtship, always compounded and hammpered by their personal lives. Rick deals with his spitefull ex-wife, Karen, whom unfairly blames him for their divorce as well as his two teenage children, the tough but soft-hearted hunk Eli, and the troubled Jessie. Lily deals with her estranged, selfish, restaurateur husband Jake and her daughters whom include the insecure teenager Grace, and the young, troubled Zoe.