Gwen grows up with her romantic mother constantly telling her the story of her courtship and marriage to her father Nick grows up with an alcoholic father who can#39;t hold a job and whose family, as a result, is forced to move all the time The two are shaped by this Gwen a romantic and Nick withdrawn, unsure of himself as they watch the hugely popular sixties sitcom, quot;One Big Happy Familyquot; Years later, it is the star of that show, now a child actor gone bad with a history of detox and people always saying, quot;I thought she was dead,quot; Francesca Lanfield, who connects the two of them, after years of nearmisses and almost encounters Gwen is hired to ghostwrite Francesca#39;s autobiography, while Nick, becoming her lover, is the architect who is to design a building on Francesca#39;s property When Gwen decides to crusade to save Francesca#39;s building, she writes letters to the newspaper which catches Nick#39;s attention and wins his heart