Tom and Jessica Coliver, a young couple with a baby son, live in a wealthy town outside of New York known for its lack of crime and drama. Normally, the most exciting thing to happen would be the woman getting arrested for ignoring a parking ticket. However, as Jessica’s neighbor tells her, another woman in town has been having affairs with various delivery boys and the town is taking steps to remove her. Jessica is fascinated by the story, but puts it aside as she attends a local ball, where she decides to indulge in pleasure and dance all night. Soon after she comes down with a fever and has to go to the hospital. When she returns after a weeks-long stay, she finds that the new delivery boy is attractive and invites him inside for a drink, hoping it may turn into something more. The boy, a nineteen-year-old named Emile, is tired of fooling around in drive-in movies and feeling like he’s not going anywhere in life, so he decides that an affair with Jessica will make him into a true adult. The two begin meeting during his deliveries, although Jessica is paranoid that he’s having affairs with other neighborhood women as well. She invites him to her house in Nantucket, where they spend the weekend together, and then another weekend in Boston. In the city, Emile notices an expensive ring and wants to buy it, but he doesn’t have nearly enough money so Jessica buys it for him. He continuously asks Jessica for more money to buy food as well, and the difference in their classes begins to frustrate them both. Finally, when Emile speaks harshly to her at another meet-up in New York, Jessica ends their relationship and they never meet again.