In London, Marco barely scrapes out a living as a ghostwriter and a drummer in a band called The Music of Chance. He has a difficult relationship with a woman named Poppy, being unable to completely commit to her. Marco wakes up one morning in the bed of Katy Forbes. She sends him away when she receives an antique chair sent to her by her ex-husband, Neal Brose. On his way out, Marco saves a woman, hurrying to Gatwick Airport, from being struck by a taxi. When he is interrogated by three suited men about the woman, Marco lies and tells them she went to Heathrow. The incident encourages him to consider the interplay between chance and destiny.