Long Story Short is the story of Ellen and her friends, all in their thirties/forties, and their more or less self-inflicted complications of love and longing for romantic redemption. The story is a summary of three years of ups and downs related to the year of love for the group of friends told through eight chapters, each set at a party: a New Year's Eve, a housewarming, a New Year's Eve, summer solstice, a wedding, a surprise party, naming ceremony, anniversary and round birthday. It is a joint story about a group of people who struggle with the conception of the perfect relationship and are forced to reevaluate their opinion of what true love is.