A docudrama following a group of working-class women striving for better opportunities.
Five blue-collar Boston women in their twenties are the focus of this series that follows their coming-of-age story with the odds stacked against them.
They live in a town where a good education and employment are hard to come by, each having seen their share of hard times. At this critical time of their lives, they have each other to turn to as they strive to break out from the expected and make better lives for themselves.