Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a masseuse and divorcee, attends a party in Pacific Palisades with her friends, married couple Will (Ben Falcone) and Sarah (Toni Collette). She meets a poet, Marianne (Catherine Keener), and Will introduces Eva to his friends, Jason (Phillip Brock) and Albert (James Gandolfini). After the party, Albert and Eva begin dating. Marianne contacts Eva for a massage, and she and Marianne become friends.
Eva and Albert have lunch with his teenage daughter, Tess (Eve Hewson). A few days later, Eva goes to her massage appointment with Marianne and sees a photo of Tess there. She realizes that Albert is Marianne's ex-husband. Eva continues seeing Albert, keeping her friendship with Marianne a secret; likewise, she does not tell Marianne she is seeing him. Eva learns that her daughter, Ellen (Tracey Fairaway), has been accepted into Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Eva encourages Marianne to complain about her ex-husband Albert so she can identify potential problems in her relationship with him. Sarah and Will invite Eva and Albert to a dinner party, which goes badly after Eva begins finding fault with Albert, which upsets him. At another appointment with Marianne, Eva is exposed when Albert arrives to drop Tess off at her mother's. He is angry that Eva kept her friendship with Marianne a secret, and breaks up with her.
Eva and her ex-husband take Ellen to the airport for her flight to college. A few months later, on Thanksgiving Day, Eva drives by Albert's home and stops in front of the house. He sits with her on the porch and they begin to renew their relationship.