A drama adapted from Ellen Simon’s stageplay, which made its theatrical debut six years previously at Duke University.

Gwynnie plays a supportive chain-smoker who’s spent the past 14 years attempting to come to terms with her mother’s untimely death. She could find salvation in an unusual place, though, when she becomes part of a support system that rallies around friend Rebecca (Elizabeth Perkins), whose husband dies while out jogging.

Period Garb? The mouthful of a title make it sound like there should be some gowns here, doesn’t it? Sadly, there are none.