Todo comienza con una gran boda en Pittsburgh. Se casan Cynthia y Adam; ambos tienen veintidos anos y son los primeros de su generacion en entrar en la temida, despreciada, ambiguamente deseada vida de los adultos. Viven juntos desde hace dos anos en Nueva York, pero se casan en Pittsburgh una opaca ciudad industrial porque el segundo marido de la madre de Cynthia, el acaudalado Warren Sikes, ha pagado con mucho gusto la suntuosa boda. Y tambien el viaje y el alojamiento de los invitados, un batallon de jovenes que desdenan el mundo de sus mayores pero no tienen ningun deseo de cambiarlo; solo quieren apoderarse de el, y saben que inevitablemente les llegara la oportunidad. / It all begins with a big wedding in Pittsburgh. Cynthia and Adam get married; they are both twenty-two and they are the first among their generation to enter into the feared, despised, and ambiguously desired adult life. They have lived together for the past two years in New York, but they get married in Pittsburgh (an opaque industrial city) because Cynthias mothers second husband, the wealthy Warren Sikes, has happily paid for the luxurious wedding. And also for the travel and accommodation expenses for all the guests, a battalion of youngsters who spurn the world of their elders yet have no desire to change it; they just want to take it over, and they know that the opportunity will inevitably arrive.