Martha and Daniel are nice people-they live in a nice house-have nice kids - a nice life - and they want to leave each other nicely.
Martha and Daniel are already discovering that leaving each other nicely is not easy - they had not taken into consideration people and things.
Martha and Daniel are trying to leave each other - the children have learned to live with the dilemma - but the dog is finding it different and raises some objection.
All that Daniel wants is to get his divorce from Martha over, but Martha - having suggested leaving each other in the first place - keeps finding reasons for them to procrastinate. This time it's her sudden love for their house.
Things are becoming very difficult for Martha and Daniel. They have been through the formalities of their divorce -all that remains now is the actual parting.
There doesn't seem to be anything left to attend to -so Daniel and Martha make that final effort to leave each other.
Martha and Daniel are now divorced - they are ready to make new lives - but new lives need new people and they are out of practice.
Martha is caught up in a family matter but Daniel is too busy exploring his new life to notice.
Martha and Daniel, although divorced, try to keep the family situation going. A well-meant dinner goes wrong for all of them and Daniel discovers that his new life is turning sour too.
Daniel is having problems with Freda, his new-found partner - and Martha is just experiencing meeting hers.
Daniel and Martha are now immersed in new relationships but something keeps drawing them back together. A visit to their old marital home puts things in their proper perspective.
Martha and Daniel at last reach conclusions about each other and about themselves. The problem is that their conclusions don't match. Daniel is going to get hurt.