Sweet by and by

<p>Meet five North Carolina women who are about to change the way you think about friendship. For Rhonda a gritty fun-loving hairdresser in tight jeans the sights and smells of Ridgecrest Nursing Center are depressing. But before she can change her mind about working there two residents glue themselves to her: Margaret droll and whip-smart with a will of iron that never fails her even when her body does and Bernice an avid country music fan who is rarely lucid. Together with Lorraine their church-going God-questioning nurse and her daughter April bright and ambitious they lock arms in courage and humor for a journey that speaks to us all--of how we live and die of how we love and forgive.</p>