Unknown to Claire, Zack has been struggling with feelings of attraction to other men. Intending to start a family, the couple buy a big house. They first met when they were both in college, have been married for eight years, and are generally happy in their relationship, sharing a love for Gilbert and Sullivan and the poetry of Rupert Brooke, to whom they were introduced by their elderly former neighbor, Winnie Bates.
Zack Elliot is a successful young oncologist in the Los Angeles area married to Claire, an equally successful television network executive during the early 1980s.
