Anne and James seemingly have the ideal marriage until the arrival of a stranger begins a string of astonishing events that leads to murder and adultery and threatens to unravel their lives forever.

A notorious seductress enters a gossipy society and entices the husband of a faithful young woman, delighting the gossips and prompting a series of unexpected consequences.

Following failed attempts to conceive, Jason and Cynthia are contemplating divorce. In an effort to save their marriage, they book a vacation to a couples therapy retreat, called Eden. To save money they encourage their friends to join them, claiming that their friends can enjoy the party activities and not take part in the therapy. Reluctantly their friends, Dave and Ronnie, Joey and Lucy, and recently divorced Shane and his girlfriend Trudy agree....

Jenna is unhappily married. She squirrels away money and is hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant and her plans are thrown awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with her fellow waitresses, Dawn and Becky. She, also, finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town....

Mary and Michael are a long married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. On the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.

Separated from his wife, an architect has an affair with a writer, but remains emotionally torn between the two women, leaving his future happiness, and that of his 13-year-old daughter, hanging in the balance.

Gigi is struggling to find true love while shifting through men who are simply not interested. After her latest date, Connor, has failed to call her, Gigi visits a bar he said he frequented in order to see him. There, she meets Alex, a friend of Connor's who works at the bar. Gigi admits that Connor is not expecting her. Alex explains that Connor isn't interested and takes it upon himself to explain the 'signs' to Gigi. Meanwhile, having just left...

An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family's prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving...

As three women go on a boating trip with their children, they receive a letter written by a woman claiming to have stolen one of their husbands. The letter doesn't say which one. Faced with the prospect of a shattered life, each woman soul searches throughout the day: Deborah feels inadequate amidst her husband's country club set. Everyone sees Lora Mae as a gold digger. Rita's career makes her husband feel neglected. They endure the anguish until...

When Kitty discovers Nick is having an affair with the sultry seductress Tula, their rocky relationship gets a whole lot rockier. Nick finds himself facing a full-scale revolt from his daughters at home, and Kitty enlists her oddball cousin Bo to track down Tula. Deals with love and hate, life and death, and romance and cigarettes.