When a workplace disaster upends Addison Irwin's decade-long career at a posh Manhattan advertising agency, things look bleak for the thirty-three year old mid-western transplant. But a surprising inheritance, from an arty aunt she barely remembers - a house on Fire Island, complete with an artist's studio - changes the trajectory of her life in every way possible. Between the revolving door of visitors over seven summer weekends and the up and down relationship with her brooding neighbor, Addison is left to decide the who, what, when and where's of her future.