Amanda Peet stars as Alex, a no nonsense lawyer who is recently divorced and raising her 8-year-old daughter with a jailed ex-husband. When she decides to remodel her kitchen, Pete (David Walton) comes strutting into her life and begins to break down her walls (both literally and figuratively, we presume). He's a beach bum, a womanizer and exactly the type of man that would typically repulse Alex