Such Good People

Married Angelenos Richard Nearly and Alex Reardon aspire to a more fabulous lifestyle than what they can afford, especially home ownership and being parents. In both those aspects, they feel like they are always behind Alex's half-sister and her husband, Drs. Paige and Cooper Whitehead, both grief counselors (Ph.D.s as opposed to M.D.s) who they don't really like beyond being family, who have recently purchased a house, and who have just announced that they are expecting their first child. Richard and Alex get a taste of that life to which they aspire when a by-chance situation leads to them being asked to house-sit Edendale, the Silver Lake home of Paige and Cooper's "friends", philanthropists Chloe and Jake Jones who are traveling to Bhutan to deal with their charity du jour, an orphanage. Beyond the gay/straight divide, Richard and Alex see Chloe and Jake as their role models, from the philanthropy, especially in supporting the orphanage in they trying to adopt, to Edendale, which is their dream house. Two items that occur in quick order have the potential to change their lives drastically: first, they discover just short of $1 million in cash in a hidden room in Edendale; and second, they learn that Chloe and Jake were killed in Bhutan in an "accident". As such, they internally battle the want to make sure that the money gets to the orphanage in Bhutan or any other worthwhile charity in lieu against using the money for their own personal wants, especially home ownership, the latter which raises in importance when they learn that Edendale is for sale. The situation gets even more complicated by what they don't know is happening behind the scenes: that Paige and Cooper are trying to get that money themselves as Chloe and Jake bilked them out of it in an unethical property transaction, and as such Paige and Cooper may have had something to do with the "accident" in Bhutan.