After a bad breakup, Emily Browning travels from Australia to New York City to work as an intern for archivist Adam Horovitz. Adam Horivitz's current project is archiving the papers of his recently departed father in law (notably the film never tells us what the father in law did for a living, other then that he was apparently a reasonably significant figure in that field, at least in the NYC area).
Chloe Sevigny is Adam Horovitz's wife, Adam Horovitz cheated on Chloe years ago, he's been pretty contrite since, but Chloe is having trouble fully letting it go. Chloe's sister Mary-Louise Parker low level hates Adam, Adam thinks she's a bitch, a sentiment shared by Mary-Louise Parker's personal assistant Lily Rabe. Lily Rabe in turn vents about this to her sister Lio Tipton, who is married to Jason Schwartzman who is the son of a friend of Emily Browning's mother, and Emily Browning has had a crush on him since she was little and is hoping to reconnect now that she is in New York working for Adam Horovitz, whose good friend Craig Butta is also friends with Jason Schwartzman.
You get the picture, a spidersweb network of soap opera style inter relationships. On occasion the film flirts with semi profound themes. It also makes most of its characters pretty unlikable, trys to shed new contextual light on some of them late in the film, but it dosen't quite work since they've been so unlikable. It has a few moments, but never quite congeals into anything of lasting substance. **
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