Erin`s 31 a journalism grad student at Stanford and for the summer an intern at a New York daily. She meets Garrett at a bar they hit it off and for the rest of the summer are inseparable. But can the relationship grow - or even survive - at a distance? Erin who put her professional life on hold once before for a man gets advice from her married sister Corinne and he gets running commentary from his best friend Box and his roommate Dan - both clueless about women. Garrett who doesn`t much like his job at a record company looks for work in the Bay Area Erin tries to find a reporting job in New York but as these efforts fail is there any hope for them as a couple?