Maggie Sweet has had enough. For nineteen years, she's kept house, raised a pair of battling twin daughters, put up with her frugal husband Steven, humored his impossible mother, and kept her mouth shut. But when Steven spends their life savings on a cemetery plot, it's time to speak her mind. At thirty-eight, Maggie's not going quietly into that dark night. Nuh-uh, sugar.

Maggie's twenty-year high school reunion is just around the corner. And her long-lost high school boyfriend is back in town. It's Maggie's turn to start living like everybody else -- and that includes fulfilling her dream of becoming a hair stylist. In the face of small-minded gossips, a surly family, and a meddling grandmother, Maggie must reach deep inside her southern housewife soul to become the woman she's always wanted to be.