You might think you have your future neatly laid out, but what happens when other people trample across your plans?
Meg, Joey, Angelique and Caitlin – different ages, different lives, different plans for the future. But by the time their paths cross, each of them has found that events have no respect for planning.
Meg is lonely. Fifty is no age to find yourself rattling aimlessly around a large house made hideous by the lingering shade of your mother-in-law. Joey’s plans are quite clear – a good HSC mark and place at university – until her relentlessly hippy mother embarks on a plan of her own. Caitlin is set to marry Adam, Meg’s nephew, but Adam’s shining armour reveals rust spots that Caitlin can’t ignore. And Angelique? It’s tricky leading a secret life, and sooner or later, it’s likely to fall in a heap.
This is a story about choices and relationships – two things we all have with varying degrees of success.