He lies to Claire, saying he has to work late. Zack and Bart are mutually but unspokenly attracted to each other and go out for lunch.Ī few days later, Zack asks him on a dinner date. Bart leads a fairly hedonistic single lifestyle, picking up multiple sexual partners, frequenting gay bars and clubs, occasionally taking recreational drugs. This changes when he meets Bart McGuire, a gay novelist who comes to see him for a medical check-up. He picks up men in his car and starts frequenting gay bars in West Hollywood on his lunch hour, although he does not follow through sexually. Unknown to Claire, Zack has been struggling with feelings of attraction to other men. Intending to start a family, the couple buy a big house. They first met when they were both in college, have been married for eight years, and are generally happy in their relationship, sharing a love for Gilbert and Sullivan and the poetry of Rupert Brooke, to whom they were introduced by their elderly former neighbor, Winnie Bates.
Zack Elliot is a successful young oncologist in the Los Angeles area married to Claire, an equally successful television network executive during the early 1980s.
