Five seeemingly unconnected lifelines intersect in the San Fernando Valley: Detective Kathy Farber arrives at a crime scene to find that the corpse is that of her old friend Carmen; Elaine battles her mother and waits for a male colleague to call; Rebecca finds out that she is pregnant; Rose develops a comedic obsession with her new neighbor; and Kathy's sister, Carol, speculates on what might have driven Carmen to suicide."This Is Dr. Keener" concerns the barren inner life of Dr. Elaine Keener, a successful physician who, at midlife, finds herself alone and perplexed that a new love interest will not return her phone calls. When a remarkably accurate tarot card reader, Christine, makes a house call, Dr. Keener begins to assess the true emptiness of her own condition.
In "Fantasies About Rebecca," Rebecca is a bank manager who discovers her affair with businessman Robert has produces a surprise pregnancy. Although resolved to terminite it, she is given advice from her doctor, Debbie, to think things over. While searching inward, Rebecca asks an attractive co-worker, Walter, if he thinks the male employees ever have sexual fantasies about her. When they meet by chance later that night, they have a most unexpected one-night stand.
"Someone For Rose": Rose is a school teacher and writer of children's books. She is also a single mother of a teenage son, Jay. She finds herself thinking of romance when a dwarf hospital accountant, Albert, enters her life as her new neighbor.
"Goodnight Lilly, Goodnight Christine": Christine, the tarot card reader, takes care of her seriously ill lover, Lilly. The two sort through the history of their relationship, finding solace in warm memories that have been buried by Lilly's terminal condition.
"Love Waits For Kathy": Kathy is a single police detective investigating the apparent suicide of a high school classmate, Carmen. She brings the details of the case home, where she discusses them with her insightful, blind sister Carol. Carol is beautiful and alive in ways Kathy is not, dating often because, as Carol muses, "guys like to do the blind girl." Hiding behind her role as caretaker, Kathy avoids romance until a colleague, Sam, pursues her.