At work, where she leans into her natural assertiveness, Annie is a star. Eager to please her commitment-phobic boyfriend, she can't stop parsing his texts and pretending to be the easy-going, cool girl he wants. Celine is so haunted by an event in her past that she can't access the confidence she yearns to exude.Īnnie is worried about Joy's senseless devotion to Theo, but she has her own troubles. Distracted by her need to please Theo, Joy fails to see that Celine's beauty doesn't protect her from her own insecurities. Anything Celine might deny him, Joy will grant. Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to nurture the bond she and Theo have forged. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he's never mentioned and who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen. When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. Struggling to make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirtysomething existences aren't exactly what they'd imagined for themselves.
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