Divorced, fifty-plus and a reporter on a small-town newspaper, Carol has just one grumble the way friends and family will try to fix her up with a Mr Wonderful. No thanks! Shes perfectly content on her own. Then life shifts into the kick-ass mode. Steve, a tyrannical new editor, arrives: her elderly father morphs into a babe magnet: her daughter and granddaughter land on her doorstep, and black hairs sprout from Carols chin.Jenny, Carols meek plump housewife friend, is eager to find herself a job, but her husband disapproves. Tina, a glamorous recently-widowed gold-digger, has one major problem she hates getting older.When the three women workout together with Max, an erotic personal trainer, all their lives are changed.