Walter Lockwood

Two childhood friends who have since become fierce rivals are forced to make nice when their children marry. But the feud reignites when a bundle of joy arrives, and the feisty grandmothers vie for baby-tending duties when the new mom goes back to work.

A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.