Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a "gentleman caller" appears, things move to crisis point.—Cleo <[email protected]>

Amanda is faced with the dilemma of a dependent life, for both her remaining years, but more importantly, for her dependent daughter, Laura. Amanda struggles to use the only means she has at her disposable to secure a future for her frightened and fragile "spinster" daughter.—Anonymous