Splitsville centers on two marriages and the fallout when one partner seeks a divorce to sleep with other people. Carey, newly shaken, learns that his best friend and that friend's wife have an open marriage, prompting Carey to attempt non-monogamy himself. Ashley embarks on a rapid series of dates while Carey befriends her exes, who remain in the shared loft. The film stages a long-take montage across a wallless loft, using escalating physical proximity and comedic pileup to make the situation increasingly absurd. The sequence contrasts Ashley's irritation with Carey's performative chillness, suggesting emotional consequences beneath the comedy.
Ashley (Adria Arjona) has recently informed her husband, Carey (co-writer Kyle Marvin), that she wants a divorce so she can sleep with other people. Not long after this bombshell, Carey learns that his best friend Paul (director and co-writer Michael Angelo Covino) and his wife, Julie (Dakota Johnson), have an open marriage. Having just had his world rocked - twice - Carey returns to the apartment that he and Ashley share, determined to preserve the remnants of his relationship by proving that he, too, can handle non-monogamy.
What follows is a montage of Ashley enthusiastically hurling herself back onto the dating scene, taking on a string of lovers - like himbo bartender Jackson (Charlie Gillespie), sensitive chiropractor Fede (David Castañeda), and brusque chef Antoneta (Nahéma Ricci) - that Carey, in a demonstration of the chillness he obviously isn't actually feeling, befriends so enthusiastically that they all keep hanging around the place after Ashley dumps them.
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