On tuesdays they played mah jongg

For two decades Michael Bern a gay television writer in Hollywood has stared at an unfinished screenplay sitting on his desk. After attending a friends funeral in his hometown of Newport News Virginia Michael returns to Hollywood and finds there is more than a screenplay that is unfinished in his life. He finally confronts what the screenplay represents -- memories and stories of the sometimes sad often hilarious characters of his past especially his mother and her four closest friends. Florence Hannah Rona Arlene and Doreen -- five more fascinating menopausal Jewish women one would never meet. They were friends for more than forty years and saw each other through lifes triumphs tragedies and multiple spouses. Yet there was only one constant in their lives. On Tuesdays they played Mah Jongg