Our Gang

Things are going decidedly downhill for Bella Shepard and Rachel Cohen; their husbands have gone to the hereafter; they're fast approaching their "golden years" with more concern than confidence, and Bella's daughter Bea is pressuring her to leave her ancestral Boston home and start a new life in L. A. with her three grandchildren and errant husband. But Bella refuses to go. Instead, along with the help of Rachel, she takes destiny into her own hands and decides to stay east rather than to go west, turning her suburban brownstone in a haven for a like-minded band of vibrant senior roustabouts. There's Eddie, a Vietnam veteran and handyman; Marcel, a working French chef; Doc, a semi-retired M. D. and naturopathic healer, and the gifted musician Holly Wainwright. Can such a gang of mature misfits build a home together in this age of unreason and conspicuous corruption? Only time and a lot of luck will tell.