Jessica Nieves-Sanders, a high school drama teacher in Queens, longs to be a mother before she hits 40. After several failed attempts at IVF she is forced to explore alternative methods to become one.
The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.
Three actresses/waitresses at a showbiz diner in New York chase their dreams and battle to preserve love, inspiration and dignity. When the diner hits financial headwinds, stakes rise and suppressed tensions and feelings surface.
