Three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a month. Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover — and hoping that one day he will leave his wife and marry her. Maggie:capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can"t cope with — motherhood. Candice:honest, decent, or so she believes — until a ghost from her past turns up, and almost ruins her life. A chance encounter in the cocktail bar sets in train an extraordinary set of events which upsets all their lives and almost destroys their friendship...