Based on the novel by Pamela Redmond Satran,” the young man ” follows 40-year-old Liza, a suddenly single mother who tries to return to the working world, only to find it almost impossible to start at her age. When a chance encounter with a young man at a bar convinces her that she looks younger than herself, Liza tries to pass herself off as 26 – with the help of a makeover, courtesy of her best friend Maggie. Armed with a new confidence, she has a job as an assistant to the temperamental Diana and joins her new collaborator and Kelsey for twenty years to do it in the career of her dreams. Now she has to make sure no one finds out the secret that only she and Maggie share.