Tabatha, a romance writer, is back on Long Island and back together with her longtime best friend, Levi, a bookstore manager. His sister is getting married, giving the pair a chance to hang out in person after years of messages and video chats. In discussing Tabatha's literary career, Levi expresses skepticism about the tropes she and her fellow novelists employ. It all seems silly to him-until they try settling the argument by experimenting with some of those fictional scenarios in real life. And the classic romance trope of "friends-to-lovers" is soon put to the test . .