Will Truman and Grace Adler are best friends and roommates. Will, a successful Manhattan lawyer, is likable, handsome, charming and gay. Grace is a beautiful, self-employed interior designer who just left her fiance at the alter. Together, they decide to face life's ups and downs, knowing they will always have each other to lean on. Grace's work life is complicated by her assistant Karen Walker, a wealthy socialite who works because it keeps her "down to earth." Will has a good friend in the outrageous Jack McFarland, a well-meaning but self-involved young man with emotional baggage.