Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties?sharing a subpar apartment, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. Then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage. When Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Eric's home, she becomes a hesitant ally to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie may be the only Black woman young Akila knows.