Wise Women - A Poignant Comedy in Two Acts.
It's
almost Christmas, 1944. In Knoxville, Tennessee, a frustrated mother
with a secret and a teenage daughter with a dream take in two young
roomers who work at a nearby bomb-making plant. Both girls are asserting
their independence, one in the company of servicemen, the other as a
contestant in a Miss Bombshell U.S.A. competition, an action that puts
her at odds with her father, a preacher in a small Virginia town. Along
the way, the teenage daughter, who worries more about rumors of an
asteroid said to be streaking toward nearby Chattanooga than a vicious
war raging around the world, bamboozles her mother into allowing her to
attend a Frank Sinatra concert at the local USO. When she brings home a
young war-bound Marine as naive as herself, this colorful collection of
characters is pulled apart, then mended with humor, romance, twists,
turns and revelations. As these women struggle, grow and ultimately
succeed, at least for one fragile moment in time-they remind us that
we're all "family" and, in each other's company, we may find ourselves.