Beginning with the disappearance of her college sweetheart, Gloria Webber's mind is buffeted by the opinions of her parents and friends, driven by an irresponsible husband, and eventually jumbled by conflicting moral dilemmas. What is she to do about all the voices in her head calling, Gloria?

Holly Gaynor, a forty-year-old widow, tells her daughter that the only way she will date again is if Prince Charming knocks her door down. When Charlie Prince, a handsome divorcee, knocks on Holly's door, it seems like the beginning of a fairytale. However, the baggage created by Holly and Charlie's teenage daughters stifles their budding relationship and threatens to wilt it before it is able to burst into full bloom.

Shelli Segal, an ex-Orthodox Jew, lives a perfect life until a visit to New Orleans hurls her into a sinister world that threatens to destroy her irrefutable relationships with her family and friends. Against the backdrop of obnoxious atrocities Shelli, along with her best friends Beka, a Jewish agnostic, and Katie, a Roman Catholic, attempt to define a god who has allowed their world to spin out of control.