Helen has always been a driven goal-setter, and achieved all she set out to do. Except for her current challenge--at 42, she finds herself suddenly ready to start a family, yet with no one to start a family with.

Middle Age portrays a uniquely contemporary phenomenon: the propensity of the affluent middle-aged in America to reinvent themselves romantically when the energies of youth have faded or they have become disillusioned. The setting is Salthill-on-Hudson, NY, a wealthy community where "everyone is middle-aged"--but looks much younger. In this intensely social environment, Adam Berendt, a charismatic and mysterious sculptor, dies unexpectedly, plunging...

When lonely corporate wife Joanna Harrison runs away to Pawleys Island, she has no idea what will happen next. Unsure, she takes a job as a live-in companion to Grace Finelli, an elderly woman with a secret and one last dream: to live by the ocean. As Joanna becomes friendly with a shrimp boat captain, and then joins the local loggerhead turtle project, she is drawn into island life and begins to see a new future for herself. But back in New Jersey...