Mary and Alex have attained the pot of gold at the end of the dot-com rainbow. Wealthy beyond their wildest dreams, the thirtysomething Seattle couple is now free to do whatever they wish. That means pursuing the artistic vocations they always felt more suited towriting for Mary and painting for Alexin the intoxicatingly inspirational setting of Florence. But then Tom, their newly unemployed, recently mugged and always lost-soul of a friend, comes to stay with them, ostensibly seeking his own artistic outlet. Befriended by their famous neighbour, a bawdy expat American writer, and adopted by an Italian street child, Mary and Alex discover that freedom is indeed another wordbut for what?