Two ultra-precocious Upper West Side twelve-year-olds| Franny and Jamie| are best friends. Jamie| the "new boy" in town| has experienced his parents' divorce and
guides his friend Franny in the art of surviving her own folks' imminent split. Franny senses the divorce because she has been secretly watching her father arrive
home at 5:00 every morning and pathetically try to brush off (to his wife) and hide (from his daughter) the fact that he has been away all night. She is down in the
dumps and finds a kindred spirit in her buddy Jamie| whose mother and father split up long ago. He points out the advantages of being a "child of divorce" - and is
so persuasive that he almost convinces himself as well as Franny. When Franny connivingly convinces her parents to let her go to a sleep-over with Jamie| they
explore their budding curiosity for the opposite sex. When Franny's mother finds the book "The Joy of Sex" in her daughter's bedroom and discovers that her daughter
has deceived her| ...