The echoes of the American dream are muted in New York City. Alice Maia, daughter of war veteran turned drunk, is impregnated from her recently deceased boyfriend. She decides to leave Portugal in search of new hope in New York City. However, New York City turns out to be a chaotic place, full of strangers and no hope for Alice. Soon she realizes the American Dream is a beautiful fantasy, and almost everyone she cross paths with, is proof the beautiful fantasy is not what it seems. Ana, Alice's childhood friend who resides in NY allows Alice to stay with her and her boyfriend Joshua. Joshua, disliked Alice from the first minute, and their relationship gets worse when Alice finds out his biggest secret. Meanwhile, Joshua's brother George, a philosophy teacher and his wife Rita, who is a book editor, are in the process of very nasty divorce, due to his not so secret affair with one of his students, Mary.