Based on the Off-Broadway musical of the same name by Michael John LaChiusa, the film stars Audra McDonald, Martha Plimpton, T. R. Knight, and Rumer Willis.

The interconnected story is composed of 10 vignettes that follow lonely individuals pursuing romance across 10 different periods throughout New York City's history.

He notices a pretty nurse carrying a tray and begins flirting with her, asking her to spend the night with him as he is shipping out to war the next day.

The wife, who is much younger than her husband, dresses in revealing lingerie and attempts to seduce him, but he acts uninterested, and talks about how sinful it is for people to desire "carnal gratification".

The wife eventually asks her husband if he loves her, and although he claims he does, when she attempts to initiate sex he rebuffs her and goes upstairs to masturbate alone.

A deck hand warns them to get out, but the husband, seemingly on the verge of a total breakdown at the news, does not tell the young man what is happening and instead seduces him.

The young man is furious and flees, running with all the other panicking passengers, while the husband chooses to die alone in the dark cabin.

The younger man acts coldly at first, until the filmmaker lies and says he is a Hollywood screenwriter working on a major film for Paul Newman, and agrees to go back to his apartment.

In 2002, a songwriter is helping his ex-girlfriend, a famous actress turned singer attempting to make a comeback in pop music, record a new song.

However, when the senator implies they may need to break up to further her political career, the actress claims she would be content to be her secret lover forever, and gives her a ring as a gift.

[1] The film had a limited release in the United States on November 8, 2017 io through ScreenVision Media and KAOS Connect.