The year is 1985, and Ellen Smoosh is a young lady experiencing life defining events. She’s a native Manhattanite, an only child in her mid 20s who’s recently lost her mother to a rapid terminal illness, and is coping with her father’s mental and physical deterioration over this unexpected loss. Because her parents loved each other so deeply, and influenced her, Ellen respects and champions the values of devotion and long term commitment in marriages, and relationships. Avery Wilson, the young man at work who becomes captivated with her, steps up and pursues her. What ensues is the presentation of their relationship and its results and the impact her father’s decline has on her future