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At 38, Barbara Renfrew has a pretty good life. Back in college she had the foresight to marry the Boy Most Likely to Succeed and he did. Now they have settled down in a perfectly serviceable marriage in a center-hall colonial on Chicago's North Shore.

In fact, Barbara's grown a touch smug in the sort of suburb where the crabgrass has long since been subdued by pachysandra. About the only thing that sets her life-style apart from the norm, in a village where the neighborhood kids spend sleepovers discussing designer labels, is that Barbara and Tom are childless.

But hardly footloose, until Tom comes home one fatal night and says he's being transferred to New York...the city, not the state.

We see Barbara and Tom struggle for equilibrium in the heart of New York's East Side, after all those years of separate bathrooms, lawn services, and orderly cocktail parties conducted in a fog of Arpege and Old Spice.

We see them swap their spacious center-hall colonial for a two-room Manhattan co-op in the sort of building where Rosemary's baby could grow to manhood without exciting comment. We see their marriage go down the drain.

And we see Barbara rise from the ruins of her marriage to find herself and the real meaning of love, as she heads out after the life she has always wanted.