Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children.
Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to
talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other hand, doesn't have a job or a family. He used to have both until he lost his
family on the fateful day of 9/11, and the grief he felt caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around
him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship
they shared. They soon feel that their friendship is the one thing that allows them to forget about their problems