Margaret is a Kentucky belle and Rich is a Wyoming cowboy. She has struggled to find direction in her life, while he is still dealing with the fallout from his fractured marriage. In spite of their different backgrounds, they become fast friends as soon as they meet and are soon working together and sharing an apartment in New York City in the summer of 2001, as they try to put their lives back on track. Together, they open the Firehouse, a small but thriving lunch joint in a converted building, a few blocks from Grand Central Station. As they grow closer, the broken pieces of their lives start to mend. They experience the adventure that living in New York can offer, and the day-to-day lives they lead are punctuated with the glitz as well as the tragedy that life in the city has to offer. Will they somehow manage to let go of their pasts in order to allow healing to begin and love to flourish?