Athletic, handsome, debonair, an accomplished cook and stylish homemaker? Unfortunately David Ashurst is none of these. He's newly separated and struggling to adapt to the single life when he meets Kate whose track record in the marital field isn't exactly one of success. Their friendship sees them through changes in their lives and together with other friends they ably demonstrate that when it comes to love and relationships they're old enough to know better and young enough not to care that they should. But there's an old saying that man is the only animal that trips over the same stone twice and, if only humans do, then in his search for a lover-cum-housekeeper David seems determined to prove it's untrue by tripping oh so many more times than that ...