George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
A single radio psychiatrist takes in a runaway boy she sponsors in a foster parents program.
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.