Ladies of Letters

After Irene's daughter gets married, she receives a thank you note from Vera, with whom she socialised at the occasion. Touched by the gesture, Irene responds to Vera's note.

Two widows forge a friendship through letters.

Long-held insecurities come to the surface when Vera revels in the limelight at a soiree that she attends with Irene.

Vera doesn't take the news of her unmarried daughter Karen's pregnancy very well, but after Irene pays a visit and hits it off with Karen, she and Irene spend some quality time together at Irene's.

Irene finds herself in hospital suffering from amnesia and a predilection for foul language after an incident with a bulldozer at the demonstration.

A self-censored letter to a jailed Irene, along with her daughter's drug habit, find Vera the subject of midnight police raid, and banged up inside herself.