Phillip is a struggling writer and a struggling romantic, who is madly in love with Vivian. Vivian like Philip and enjoys their flirtatious office relationship, but she does not see it developing further. Philip toils with the dilemma that plagues all writers, the beginning. He knows that once he writes the beginning everything gets easier. When Vivian stops by his office for a quick chat about how his writing is going , Philip experiences the epiphany he has been waiting for. It is the genesis throughout eternity that confounds the human condition. If he can only begin the story of his character's lives, maybe he can begin his own life with Vivian.