After graduating, Adam begins a career as a freelance journalist, while Nina enrols in graduate school, studying art history.  Ben attends Stanford Law School, where he meets Kat (Jayne Brook), a Marin County go-getter.  Together they return to New York, where Ben begins working for a high-powered corporate law firm and Kat takes a job as an assistant to be Mayor.  The addition of Kat seems to round out the balance of the old trio.
There are happy weekends spent by the two couples up at Adam's family house, a rambling Colonial in the Berkshires.  But tensions soon begin to develop within the two relationships.  Faultlines appear.  And when Ben impulsively kisses Nina on a walk together one Fall afternoon, a fragile trust begins to crumble.  Ben and Nina begin an affair that will end in destroying the man they both love.
Suicide is an irrational act and as such, difficult to explain.  When one man may lash out, another will punish himself.  When he's betrayed by the two people he trusted and loved most, Adam's world is shattered.  He truly feels he has no reason to go on living.  In the aftermath of his death, Ben and Nina's affair ends and Ben's marriage to Kat is mortally wounded.  Yet the story ends in hope.  When Ben and Nina meet again by accident on a wintry New York Street corner, it's clear they've learned from their tragic mistake.  They can go on, but there's no going back.  Because, like their youth, Adam is gone forever.

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