Nina and Katie are two best friends from college who spent years growing up together, taking trips, working, and watching relationships come and go. Now they are both middle-aged and living in California during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nina has since married and had two daughters, while Katie had a slew of unsuccessful relationships that ultimately culminated in a toxic marriage to a man named Raymond. The two sit on Katie’s porch discussing her separation from him while he’s out on a trip across the country. Nina offers her to temporarily move in with her own family, which Katie accepts after they reminisce about past trips together. That night, Nina tells her family that Katie is moving in with them for a short time, which sparks protest from her daughter Paige who also wants her friend Cameron to come live with them. Ella, her other surprisingly mature and intelligent daughter, agrees and says there’s no reason why adults are more trustworthy than kids. When Katie moves in later that month, the girls attach to her and she has conversations with them that Nina wishes she could. Katie tells her that loving them is enough, but Nina feels insecure about her parenting ability, especially with mature Ella. She wishes she could protect her daughter from the world. She and Katie discuss the merits of telling people about ugly situations that they are helpless to change, and wish that everything could be as simple as saying hello and goodbye to the hard aspects of life.