With a successful New England veterinary practice and a loving marriage to Daniel, the local minister, Jo Beckett (Kirstie Alley) is secure and happy. Yet underneath it all, there’s an increasing restlessness about the path her life could have taken had she made different choices. Perhaps it’s the independence of their daughter Cass that makes Jo long for her own free-spirited youth — or maybe it’s the unexpected appearance of Eli Mayhew, her old housemate from a Cambridge cooperative during the radical sixties.