Alice Kinney (Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon), after her divorce, decides to move with her two daughters to Los Angeles, where she grew up.
On the evening of her 40th birthday, she meets three young aspiring filmmakers at a bar who are looking for a place to live.
Alice decides to let them stay at her house temporarily, and soon their living arrangement takes an unexpected turn.
Her new life is quickly upended when her ex-husband shows up at her door with a suitcase in hand and…