New York, 1995

Bryan Jonathan Malloy and Daniel Fallon are childhood friends, immigrants from Ireland, and completely different characters. Bryan is a solitary writer who loves peace, while Daniel, a former baseball player and now coach of a small team, with three failed marriages, is a womanizer and enjoys drinking. However, through their differences, they complement each other and are strongly connected by their common background and childhood experiences.

When nine years ago Bryan published his first book, he achieved enormous publishing success and became famous. However, as he began to write his second book, he lost Claire, his wife, and shut himself off, unable to write another book. The financial inertia of so many years has created financial problems for him, which is why he is pushing himself to complete that book he left unfinished.

Everything is going well until the apartment next to his is rented by Manon Riverstone, a young stripper who makes a lot of noise. Bryan is now convinced that he will not be able to finish his book and is considering giving up everything, when on New Year's dawn, the unexpected happens...