The Chocolate shop

Laura Beckmans comfortable suburban life would be perfect but for her daughter. Four years earlier Brooke abandoned her husband and her own young daughter to run off with a musician. Now back home with her tail between her legs Brookes self-loathing boils over in the face of her mothers unrelenting condemnation. Lauras world is turned upside down after witnessing the long painful death of her husband. In the search for a better version of herself she creates the Chocolate Shop which grants terminally ill patients one last wish (e.g returning to the Rockette stage having sex one last time even skydiving). Laura then lovingly helps her clients slip away to a peaceful death. Laura must dodge the police who suspect shes committing second-degree murder and an ex-wife of a client consumed with collecting on an insurance policy. Her relationship with her daughter flips as Brooke becomes the one doing the condemning: I may have made many mistakes in my life but theres one thing I can say. I never murdered anybody. As Laura comes to grips with the ethical moral and legal dimensions of what shes doing she worries that her strained relationship with her daughter will never be repaired and wonders whether she can ever find love again. She meets Arlo Massey--brash flmboyant someone who couldnt care less about what other people think--the complete opposite of the always appropriate Laura Beckman. Arlo disrupts Lauras already tumultuous life. She finds him despicable. And yet . . .