Eleanor is 37 and has recently left Los Angeles, where she worked as a television writer. She now lives—she hopes temporarily—with her mother in New Jersey. She’s gotten a new temp job working at Frank’s advertising agency. Eleanor and Frank get closer as the weeks go by because they share a sense of humor, and Eleanor develops a crush on Frank.

Eleanor gets in a fight with her mother about her future; Eleanor is adamant to find the love of her life and not live with her mother forever. After a big pitch meeting, Eleanor and Frank go out for drinks and Frank gets drunk. Eleanor puts him in a cab home. She notes that Frank seems genuine when he tells her that he’s a bad man.

Frank hosts his annual holiday party at the office. Eleanor gets dressed up. At the party, she gets drunk. She is taken aback by Cleo’s beauty.

She runs into Cleo and Quentin in the bathroom. Cleo wants to ask Eleanor something that seem serious, but Frank and Anders enter before Cleo can finish her conversation with Eleanor.