Erica (Jill Clayburgh) is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale's. Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in its own right rather than as an extension of somebody else's personality, and finally going out with another man. Erica refuses to drop everything for Saul, an abstract expressionist painter, simply out of love for him because he expects her to. It is not so much loneliness that is her problem, and the problems that men, flitting around this newly "available" woman like moths round a flame, bring to her sense of independence.

Spring Street and Wooster Street, Manhattan.

140 Broadway and Liberty Street, Manhattan.

Rockefeller Center, 5th Avenue (btw 49th and 50th Streets) Manhattan.

Erica's Apartment, 254 East 68th Street and 2nd Avenue, Manhattan.