In the The Five Songs of Us Rebecca and William both fight with a pestering sense of loneliness and the nagging realization they both must start over when that’s the very last thing either of them wanted to ever do again.

William owns a bookshop and has just dealt with a heartbreak he knows may seem generic but to him it seems a stifling catastrophe. He no longer feels solace amid his meticulously curated stacks of books, lately he even feels like he’s being taunted by dead writers like Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and although he would never admit this to anyone, he knows they are trying to drive him crazy!.

Rebecca owns a failing record shop and can’t bring herself to stand near the jazz section because right in front of her very thoughtfully crafted Cole Porter display she was told by her husband that he was leaving her for someone she mistakenly thought was her best friend.

In order to try and move forward, the two broken souls decide to exchange shops until they can fall back in love with the businesses that were once their proudest accomplishments. Think of it as The Holiday meets You’ve Got Mail.

One theory Rebecca poses to William is that any relationship that’s actually meant something in your life can be summarized with five songs. "Five songs tell the whole story." In the compilations of their five songs of other people, maybe Rebecca and William will be led to each other?