"Men have more straightforward relationships. They don't hang up phones in a huff. They don't feud and not speak for months over insignificant issues. Men don't weep at something another man says. Or hate them for years because of it " Ruth Rothwax likes women, but she wants them to like each other more. She's thinking of starting a group for smart women who'll care about each other and gain more power for themselves and others. And Ruth practises what she preaches: every day she supports her close female friends. If only all women were like her. Then her father's sixty-seven-year-old busty blonde girlfriend enters the scene, with a suitcase full of plans. As Ruth's carefully calibrated life is turned upside down, all her sisterly solidarity and her ideals fly out the window