After four decades of what he believes to be a happy, healthy partnership, Hugo Gardner's world is overturned when he learns that his wife, Valerie, is not only requesting a divorce but has left him for a younger, more vital man. Hugo, an octogenarian political writer and retired journalist for "Time", must rethink the way he's lived, and reassess how he'd like to spend his remaining years. Beloved author Louis Begley returns to the monied halls of the Upper East Side with a sharp new comedy of manners.