After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.

A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.

Reluctant Jennifer must bathe her mischievous grandmother. Once close, they are now virtually strangers. The enforced intimacy of the situation results in an awkwardness that they can neither deny nor overcome until they begin to play together in the water.

A woman walks into a bar on Christmas Eve. She strikes up a conversation with a woman sitting on her own. Three minutes later she is back on the street. Job done.

Ryan moves from one village to the next with a merry-go-round. It isn't easy to keep finding new friends.

A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.

Upon visiting his mother in hospital, a young boy begins to unearth a secret family trauma.