Lemon and Lavender follows the story of high school English teacher, Nick, whose wife comes home on the last day of term and announces that shes been cheating on him. Unable to cope with confrontation, Nick does what he does best and leaves, heading for Colorado to visit the mother of an old military buddy who died in action years before.

After this visit, Nick continues on to the small Colorado mountain town of Thede, where, having decided that theres little left to live for, he tries drinking himself to death. But just when life seems to have played its last card for Nick, he meets Hannah. Soon he is back on track, and with an odd assortment of locals to help him, he finally sees that there could be life after wife. But fate hasnt finished playing with Nick yet and his failure to tell Hannah everything means that the past is ready to interrupt his plans for a better future once more.