Julia, a successful but wounded television journalist, discovers a Manhattan penthouse owned by her husband, Jack, which she was unaware existed. As Julia explores the apartment, she is interrupted by Katie, a beautiful and troubled young woman, who seems to know Jack a little too well. Julia soon learns that Jack, a Connecticut-based attorney with a passion for pro bono work championing various social causes, picked up the young lady off the street. At first glance, the two women appear to have nothing in common save Julia's husband. As they face off in the apartment, secrets unfold revealing the burdens each has been carrying, and they learn they have more in common with each other than either could have ever thought possible.
Pied-a-Terre is a two-act drama about grief, loss and coming to terms with survivor guilt. As the story moves backwards and forwards in time, the burdens and risks of passing genetically transmitted diseases from one generation to the next are explored and confronted. During the story, the characters struggle to overcome powerful feelings of suspicion, self-doubt, and betrayal, learning that the deepest truths between individuals are those that are often earned through the greatest amounts of pain.
Pied-a-Terre, or a second home, is a play filled with subtle humor and poignant insights, which treats its characters with great dignity while maintaining a high respect for its subject matter in a story where the passions of the soul come into conflict with the obligations of the mind and the needs of the heart.