Actress Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.

Pink Pony Cafe, 176 Ludlow Street and Stanton Street, Manhattan.

Ludlow Street and Stanton Street, Manhattan.

Commerce Street and Barrow Street, Manhattan.