Jeff Williams is an aging, well-known writer who recently lost his beloved wife to cancer. Marilyn was his everything. Both writers, they fit together like puzzle pieces, and without her, he's not sure how to hang on. He has some help from his neighbor and close friend, Alice, but nothing can fill the gaping hole left behind by the loss of his spouse. While working on a manuscript about the joys of his marriage, Jeff falls into a serious bout of writer's block. He knows it's due to the loss of Marilyn, and he barely cares, hurling his typewriter from the window. That's when Alice steps in and suggests a therapist, Dr. Joan Steele. Joan will help fix Jeff's writer's block--and hopefully more. Joan tries conventional methods of psychiatric treatment, but nothing gets through to Jeff. She realizes she's going to have to be a bit unconventional to break this man's grief. They experiment with an unorthodox treatment method, and both Jeff and Joan are surprised at the results as together they slowly, carefully move past turmoil and fall into love.