Life is a bed of roses until the day Molly signs the divorce papers and becomes The Starter Wife. 

As the wife of Hollywood movie mogul Kenny Kegan (Peter Jacobson), Molly (Debra Messing) a leads very comfortable life: she lives in a mansion with hubby and their daughter, Jaden, and spends her days lunching with her three close friends Cricket (Miranda Otto), Joan (Judy Davis) and Rodney (Chris Diamantopoulos), attending parties or attending red carpet events with her hubby or doing yoga, pilates and whatever else rich socialites do.