This Was Not the Plan

When theater director Sylvia Tanisman wins her first Tony award, her husband uses the occasion to announce he’s divorcing her. Sylvia flees the shambles of her marriage by accepting a visiting professorship at Linden, an elite college in Pierre, New York. A few counties north, high school senior Meg Croyden has narrowly survived a self-destructive, rebellious youth and is headed to Linden on a full scholarship. In the town of Pierre, lifelong resident and devout Catholic Caroline Byrne McClanahan struggles with the secret shame of a family that is falling apart. When circumstances bring the three women—hailing from starkly different worlds—to the local abortion clinic in Pierre, their fates are forever entwined.