From the moment she holds her baby niece, Rose is on a mission.
Terrified that her baby niece will fall victim to the sexual abuse
rampant in the family, Rose tells us in her own warm, funny,
down-to-earth voice, how she reluctantly agrees to join a therapy group,
hoping she can find out how to prevent disaster and see that baby Jenny
grows up unharmed. In the group, she meets new friends who will become
like family: Josie, who sees the future; Tammy, with a suspicious bruise
on her neck; good and steady Marg, whose father is threatening to burn
down her apartment house; and sweet, grieving, spiritual Sally. Rose's
own chronic problem, she confesses, is picking wrong men. Josie finds a
small magazine picture of a little town in northern Ontario. She sees,
with her second sight, a resort hotel to be built in this town and a
sunnier life for the group. As they begin to take the first painful
steps of emotional recovery, an intense fantasy about this unknown town
and dream hotel becomes the secret life of the group. Deep friendships
evolve as the women help one another through the roller coasters of
their recovery process. Despite setbacks, they cling to their dream of
moving up north and running their own hotel.
