Jules Cobb is a mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter. Along for the journey is her son, her ex-husband, her husband/neighbor and her friends who together make up her dysfunctional, but supportive and caring extended family... even if they have a funny way of showing it sometimes.

A hand gun is passed between 22 loosely connected New Yorkers.

Terrorists plot to smuggle chemical warfare into New York City, and also allude to the blowing up of the World Trade Center, before 9/11/2001.