Sandy (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) is a beautiful, sexy mother of two, who's just turned forty. Living in the neat suburb of Sleepy Hollow, she's mastered the art of multi-tasking, baking pies, cutting sandwiches, dropping her kids at school, taking care of her fantasy sport's league. What appears to be a picture perfect world is shattered the morning she discovers her husband cheating on her. Immediately she packs up her two kids and moves to New York City to find a job and start a new life. There, she meets Aram Finkelstein (JUSTIN BARTHA), a sweet twenty four year-old college graduate who's clearly at a low point in his life. He just found out his French wife of two weeks duped him into marrying him for a green card. A romantic and optimist and now a recent divorcee, he's struggling to keep his faith in the world.

Meanwhile, Sandy has taken a high-level television job, her career blossoms and she's offered a promotion. Her best friend encourages her to start dating again but after one disastrous night she firmly believes her dating days are over. Meanwhile Aram becomes an increasingly bigger part of their lives. He's fun to be with and her kids love him. Very quickly a makeshift family forms and even though there's a list of reasons they shouldn't be together, they fall in love. Sandy and Aram meet with resistance to their new relationship from friends and family alike and they both have to figure out if what they have found is something that is just fun for now or if it could last forever.