When three African-American women meet at a resort on the Jersey Shore in the 1920s, they say goodbye to their old lives. Finding men as intoxicating as bootleg liquor, they pin their futures on happily ever after. But love can be worse than a hangover when the men's flaws threaten to destroy them. Hannah knows it's time to replace her fianc who died in the war, but when Clive, a mysterious white stranger, propositions her to be his muse, can she...