 The film opens with a montage of images of Manhattan and other parts of New York City accompanied by George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue", with Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) narrating drafts of an introduction to a book about a man who loves the city.Isaac is a twice-divorced, 42-year-old television comedy writer who quits his unfulfilling job.He is dating Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a 17-year-old girl attending the Dalton School.