As Allison prepares for her first gallery show in New York moving stirs up memories from previous episodes. Once in New York she renews old friendships. Meanwhile, Marissa takes an impulsive road trip with a handsome sheriff.

Allison returns from lunch and brags to Marissa about a “quickie” she caught with a stranger. Marissa criticizes her for acting in such a reckless manner but then admits that she had a similar experience while working in Spain.

Declining sales are causing financial troubles for the midlands gallery. Marissa and Allison get no help when Jake and Denise come in and demand a refund for a photograph they say they purchased from Allison. Denise says, “The dam picture started everything”. Not wanting to giver a refund Allison prompts the couple to tell their story of the picture and how “it started everything”. As Jake and Denise take turns telling their version of the story and Allison relates her part in their fateful intersection.

A heartbroken man longs for his true love and his lost musical inspiration until he finds his new muse dancing on the beach. Newly confident, he regains his musical ability and a new love.

A bird feather left when a photo is stolen from the Midlands gallery which brings Sheriff Clayton back into Marissa’s life. This clue that leads Marissa and the Sheriff to a nearby Native American reservation where they learn that tribal elders blame the stolen photograph for Johnny Lonetree’s loss of “passion” for his lover Wenona.

Marissa is nervously getting ready for a date with a much younger man, which leads into Allison’s story about her trip to Bali. While there she stayed with an old friend, Andy Bomberg. Andy was teaching where he met an older woman named Talia LaPeci and began a romance. Andy is smitten but after one date Talia becomes uncomfortable about being with a much younger man. Allison uses her photographic talents to convince Talia that she is still young and hot enough to be with a man Andy’s age.

An African tribal mask triggers Marissa’s story of erotic masked cabaret dancer in early twentieth century Paris and a young American photographer who finds romance and erotic excitement from a French woman who dances wearing only stockings and a cheetah mask.

A broken air conditioner and a hot day cause Marissa to reminisce of her college days when she spent a couple of weeks in the Egyptian desert with a classmate named Antoinette. Distracted by the hot nights and handsome men Marissa loses focus until Annie and an archeology student named M.J. inspire her first erotic photographs.