Gloria Dreslinski, sixty-three, who lives in Chicago, her niece, Elizabeth Brannigan, thirty-six, who recently moved to Los Angeles from Chicago, and her grandniece Candy Golden, seventeen, who lives in Detroit, gather and begin a trip to Northern Michigan. Each woman has recently experienced a great loss: Glo's husband, Stan, died; Candy's mother died; Elizabeth and her husband, Leo, divorced. The women respond to their losses through activities and emotions ranging from theft to depression to sex. What emerges is a ferocious game of emotional basketball and ultimately Elizabeth stutter-steps up to the commitment of taking responsibility for her niece.
