Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is an architect from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas, Nevada to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a strait-laced White Anglo-Saxon Protestant type who, while researching possible menus items for the new nightclub, meets Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek), a free-spirited Mexican-American photographer. Alex and Isabel are overtaken by lust at first sight and end up spending the night together; however, their immediate attraction doesn't last in the cold light of day, and they don't see each other for another three months.