A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

Sarah is in a rut. Lonely, depressed and unemployed as a 30-year-old New Yorker, her life is less than impressive. At the insistence of her psychiatrist, she takes an "upper" to help her get her life together. What ensues is a day like no other, but like all good things in life, what goes up must always come down.

After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.