Donna Farmer's life has become so disheveled she is actually beginning to look forward to menopause. Sliding into half a century of failure, the face of time is telling her to be happy with a rent-controlled apartment and a few cats—possibly a dog. To add insult to injury, her inner voice prepares for a life of quiet regret. With temp work as her only means of income to cover the cost of her apartment and Karen, a narcissistic alcoholic, as her only friend, she hunkers down, preparing to disappear into old age.

But Karen has other plans—she drags Donna through a night of drunken misadventure that leads Donna to an unexpected detour from the usual rut that is her life. With no kids, no husband, no career she has nothing to lose. Donna is forced to redefine her life.

Sometimes a life of disappointment can have an upside

Its a story about; drunken fool meets young man, meets octogenarian woman, then meets life head on. Donna learns quickly that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't always a near death experience; sometimes its a new beginning.