The Incomplete Dictionary of Lexical Gaps

Empty-nesters Alice and Robert are getting their affairs in order. Tonight, they host a hysterically awkward dinner party with a couple they’ve never met before—two pairs of strangers fumbling through small talk and the careful choreography of an evening that feels slightly off balance. Then tragedy strikes and everything shifts. What began as a simple attempt at connection becomes something far deeper, binding the four of them together into a lexical gap — a situation with no name, a relationship with no easy definition.