Young adults Marcus Rottner and Jennifer Da Silva are among New York's idle rich, but have vastly different backgrounds. Jenny comes from old money, still living with her self-absorbed mother and the latest in a long line of stepfathers on an Oyster Bay estate on Long Island, while Marcus lives off a trust left to him by his now-deceased grandfather, self-made racketeer Max Rottner. Marcus' monthly allowance is more than he knows how to spend as he embarks on one artistic endeavor after another in whatever apartment he decides to occupy in the city. His only surviving relative is his older sister Sel, whom he tries to avoid because she tries to control his life; she believes he has issues he should discuss with a psychiatrist. Within 24 hours of spotting free-spirited Jenny for the first time across a piazza in Venice where they were both vacationing, Marcus knew that he had fallen in love with her and would do anything to make her happy. As Marcus and Jenny now sit in the living room of his latest apartment on the New Jersey side of the river, Marcus reminisces about their relationship in flashbacks. The only consistency in that relationship is its inconsistency, as Jenny often drops out of his life as quickly as she entered it, with Marcus hoping to see her again and occasionally making the effort to locate her. As Marcus loosely plans for their future, he faces unexpected obstacles that affect those plans--and his own existence.
—Huggo