How well do you know your mother?
How well does your mother know you?

At twenty-seven, Moss Messinger, a sometime restaurant critic with dwindling funds, had hoped he might be over his childhood. Moss grew up in a rent-stabilized two-bedroom Manhattan apartment with his distant single mother, Nina, a musician who lived in a haze of bars and men that Moss was never able to pierce. Having a baby at a young age had completely changed Nina's life - and she'd tried to change it back ever since. When her son was a teenager, she left on a jazz-fueled tour of Europe and eventually moved to Los Angeles, and Moss was never able to forgive her.
Yet when Moss breaks up with his longtime girlfriend and sinks into depression, Nina flies back east to be by his side - not altogether unselfishly, as it also allows her a respite from a troubled marriage. But the reunion triggers a series of shocking events that force mother and son to confront and understand each other in new and unusual ways.