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Gloria Harris, ne: Holland, a divorcee, social employee and nun-reject has reluctantly left her North Carolina condominium, task and man-friend to come to Baltimore – temporarily-- to imagine relations duties. Her short stopover at has grew to become from days into dismal months.
After a welcome lunch, reuniting her with a early life pal, Gloria is persuaded to direct a displaced homemakers women’s team at a neighborhood Catholic collage. Conditionally accepting this 6-week place, she kinds friendships with 4 workforce contributors: Mari, a former New Orleans local and socialite widow, buried in millions of greenbacks debt from her past due husband, and suffering to elevate a teen-aged son on my own; Ruth, a minister’s spouse whose husband left her, their son and his church with a gay disclosure; Sarah, a 40’s anything ex-hippy, whose Johns Hopkins fully-tenured professor husband has left her and their daughter for the Israeli military; Katie, a dental hygienist spouse of a neighborhood periodontist, being affected by hectic trials of divorce, whereas taking good care of her 3-year outdated and rebellious, teen-aged sons.
Over the subsequent 6 months, occasionally tragic, occasionally harrowing, yet mostly funny occasions unite those ladies of their quest for wish and a moment probability for real happiness. it is a tale of single-mothers pulling jointly, helping each other and surviving opposed to doubtless very unlikely odds, in try and redefine the right life.