With Guiding Light canceled, Paul left New York City and moved to Los Angeles. Searching for inspiration, he found his way to the one person who understands his passion for the soap opera genre, Big Sue.

Once upon a time, Paul was straight. He had a relationship with a beautiful, exotic woman named Breeze, who now turns out is a casting director for a soap opera in Los Angeles. Only problem is, Paul never told Breeze he's gay. Can Paul continue to play the part of straight guy to land a role on a daytime drama?

Paul finds himself figuring out life once again after his awkward re-connection with Breeze, This time, he's planning on wowing a writer from The Bold and the Beautiful by sharing his Guiding Light stories live on stage. Things don't turn out quite how Paul anticipated, and he finds himself at a bar, alone, in another situation that doesn't seem to go the way he anticipated.

Paul shares with Big Sue a recent story about what happened during a ride-share experience. Paul's life in starting to spiral downward as there are very few places to turn and he's realizing it day by day.

On his way out to visit Big Sue, Paul and Stephanie have a conversation in the kitchen about dreams. Stephanie attempts to cheer Paul up by giving him one of her "all natural/minus the pills" smoothies which sends Paul into a crazy dream sequence that Big Sue must have also inspired.