Sisters Sharon and Tracey have absolutely nothing in common - until the day their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon moves out of her dreary council flat and into wealthy Tracey's palatial home in the suburbs. As the women get on with their lives and their husbands serve their sentences, they find help and hindrance in equal parts from Tracey's man-eating neighbour, Dorien, a married, middle-aged woman who has frequent affairs with younger men.