When Samantha Morrow's husband leaves her and her eleven-year-old son, she is faced with the terrifying prospect of having to recreate her whole life. After a few faltering steps, she starts to put the pieces into place. She opens her house to a series of lodgers who, each in their eccentric way, help her to see herself. She fends off her mother, whose idea of getting over a failed marriage is to get a pedicure and get out there and start dating. She makes a friend, King—an MIT graduate turned handyman—who shows her that she has the ability to make her own future and her own happiness...