If you lived here, you'd be home by now

the long version

Bronwyn Peters and Paul Hoffstead are stranded in a dreary tract house with chain-link fencing, so far from the actual city of Los Angeles that they may as well be on Mars. For years they have tried believing that this is just a temporary stop on their inevitable way to Hollywood glamour - that, in fact, their hose is so ugly, so frayed, so...brown that it's almost cool. But just as the Bohemian life is wearing painfully thin, their fortunes change overnight, catapulting them out of the world of practical problems and into the world of ethical ones.