During a two-day escapade, Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg ( Lindsay Duncan) careen from harmony to disharmony to resignation and back again as they take stock of a lifetime of deep tenderness-- and even deeper regret. A surprise invitation from Nick's old friend Morgan, (Jeff Goldblum), an amusingly boorish American academic with a fancy Parisian address, soon leads them to an unexpectedly hopeful vision of what their love and marriage could still become.