Absorbed in her own failings, Clara Purdy crashes her life into a sharp left turn, taking the young family in the other car along with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara moves the three children and their terrible grandmother into her own house while Lorraine undergoes cancer treatment.

In this work, we follow the lives of the three Avery sisters: Aurora, the eldest and most conventionally beautiful; thoughtful Clover, a year younger; and headstrong Bella, the youngest. The girls, overseen by their fond but barely coping Mama, set out to make their living as a singing act after the death of their father.