Twenty school children, fourteen of whose parents are divorced, discuss the various aspects of divorce and give advice on coping with the feelings, fears, and problems caused by divorce and its aftermath.
Rendered a pawn in her parents' manipulative divorce, Daley embarks on an adolescence fraught by her mother's liberal social commitments and her conservative father's alcoholism, from which she flees in adulthood only to be drawn back when her father hits bottom.
Mimi's plans to spend the summer after tenth grade in Berlin with her mother change suddenly when she runs off to London, moves in with her school friend Lily and the wealthy and well-connected family she is staying with, and takes an internship at a gossip magazine.