Alfie and Helena had been married over 40 years when he decides to leave and sets himself up as a fitness obsessed bachelor, but things don't turn out quite as he had hoped and after just a few months, finding himself unbearably lonely he seeks solace in the arms of a beautiful but vulgar prostitute who he soon decides to marry. Meanwhile the devestated Helena, having made an attempt on her own life, finds an emotional crutch at the table of Cristal, a charlatan fortune teller who manages to give her hope where none had previously existed all of which is a great relief of her daughter who is having her own problems trying to resist an increasingly acute attraction to her boss, an art gallery owner, while simultaneously keeping her marriage to a struggling novelist alive.
