Two childhood friends draw upon their shared past to rebuild their troubled lives. California is a land of obvious pleasures for a group of upwardly-mobile young professionals, but also a world of duplicitous love. As beauty salon co-workers deal with issues of motherhood and men, they learn that a blessing to one is not necessarily good fortune to another. In alternating voices, four single black Chicagoans offer a funny, candid look at the differences in the way men and women perceive each other. As best friends Patrice and Cherry prepare for the marriage of their children, they are forced to reconcile with a shattering truth from their radical past.
Sparks fly in the world of the black elite when a Newark girl meets an upper-crust Boston boy.
After tragedy unravels their privileged lives in 1965, three Philadelphia sisters struggle to rebuild family relationships. A brutal power struggle in the auto industry pits white collar against blue collar, and a fatal attraction between employees ends in murder. Two sisters, different as night and day, are so hungry for what the other has that they are tearing their lives apart.