The addition of Kat seems to round out the balance of the old trio. There are happy weekends spent by the two couples up at Adam's family house, a rambling Colonial in the Berkshires. But tensions soon begins to develop within the two relationships. And when Ben impulsively kisses Nina on a walk together one Fall afternoon, a fragile trust begins to crumble. Ben and Nina begin an affair that will end in destroying the man they both love.
Suicide is an irrational act and as such, difficult to explain.
When one man may lash out, another will punish himself. When he's betrayed by the two people he trusted snd loved most, Adam's world is shattered. He truly feels he has no reason to go on living. In the aftermath of his death, Ben and Nina's affair ends and Ben's marriage to Kat is mortally wounded. Yet the story ends in hope.