Dott Emerson (Mary McDonnell),a divorced mother with a successful publishing house, collaborates with best friend Ellie Walker (Jean Smart) on best-selling romance novels. Val Brumberg, a former college girlfriend who is pregnant and leaving an abusive husband, enters the picture and moves in with Dott against Ellie's wishes.
Neurotic Ellie has a conniption fit when best friend Dott invites their frump...