A LATE SNOW
An almost-middle-aged teacher at a small, conservative college on the eastern seaboard, Ellie is celebrating the first anniversary of her relationship with Quincey, a passionate and boisterous young student. Thinking that Quincey is going to be away, Ellie shows up at their secluded cottage with a new friend–Margo, a well-known, earth-motherly writer who Ellie hopes will come teach at the college. Ellie is strongly attracted to Margo but doesn’t know if her interest is returned. Thinking that Ellie is going to be away, Quincey has come to the cottage with an antique cupboard she’s bought as an anniversary present–and with the antiques dealer she bought it from, a tomboyish, slightly vicious alcoholic named Pat, who not coincidentally is a former lover of Ellie’s. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, four’s an explosion in the making; but even as Ellie tries to sift between her past, present, and future relationships, along comes a friend from the distant past–Peggy, the ex-cheerleader who was Ellie’s, um, “best friend” in college until she made a “perfect” marriage–which she is now considering abandoning.
