 In Topanga Canyon, in a beautiful but sparely appointed house, Jean Mackenzie feels like she s suffocating in her marriage to Phil, a tightly-wound architect. "I love you, it s us I don t like," she says to him as she embarks on an affair with Phil s opposite: a burly slacker named Viggo who lives in a trailer that has no bathroom. During the affair, she stays at Viggo s and continues to have contact with Phil. Where will his anger take him? Is Viggo, who s a good listener and an enthusiastic lover, more than a catalyst? Where will Jean s search for self - and for room to breathe -- take her?