Beautiful Bodies

On the coldest night of the year in Manhattan, six close friends make their way through wind and snow to a shared celebration. All of them are professional women, and each arrives flushed and in the middle of a crisis of her own.

The evening matters to every one of them. One is ready to celebrate a new lover. Another is deciding whether to leave an unfaithful husband. A third is weighing whether to have a baby on her own. Around the table, the friends press their choices on one another, and the talk turns sharp.

The question hanging over the dinner is which side prevails, the romantics or the realists. Love lives and secrets come out as the night goes on, and the friendships themselves are put under strain. Cell phones chime throughout, and the characters feel the pull of their biological clocks.

Beautiful Bodies is a comedy of manners about an urban generation whose friends act as family. The tone is witty and quick, with barbed exchanges driving the scenes. The action is confined to a single night and a single gathering.