Bette Porter and Tina Kennard have been a couple for seven years and they want to start a family. Their next-door neighbor Tim Haspel is excited that his girlfriend a talented young writer named Jenny Schecter is moving in with him. But soon mixing with Bette and Tina's circle of lesbian friends Jenny learns that her Mid-West university education may not have prepared her for what she will learn about life lust and love in Los Angeles.