Max Carlyle is the advertisement manager of a company in Los Angeles, where he lives with his beloved wife Mimi Carlyle and their two children. While in New York for a business meeting, he visits his best-friend Charlie, who is HIV positive. They have not seen each other for five years because of a minor problem. When Max's pen leaks ink in his pocket in the lobby of the hotel after the check-out, he befriends a woman, Karen, who offers him to go to her room to change the shirt. Max learns that Karen will go to the theater to see a string quartet in the night. Max loses his flight to LA, meets Karen and they go to the theater together. While returning to the hotel, they are robbed and Max defends her. She invites him to stay in her room to wait for his flight on the next morning and they have one night stand. One year later, Max returns to New York with Mimi to visit Charlie, who is terminal, and they meet his brother Vernon. He introduces his wife to Max and Mimi and he realizes that she is Karen.
—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil