Nick Brown, a neurotic best-selling author on love, with the heightened emotional capacity of a woman, can write so eloquently on the subject, but can't keep girls from leaving him. After he comes back to his apartment in New York City to find his fiancee with another man, he returns to his hometown and the only woman he had ever left, his mother, Mimi. There he renews his relationships with the people that matter the most, his friends and family.