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Living in fear of menopause, an academic and lesbian embarks on a strange, comic, and satisfying fifty-first year, featuring an afair with a younger woman, a role in a porn film, and an exchange with shears-wielding murderer
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When middle-aged, academic Rosemary meets twenty-seven-year-old Billie - a woman with a tough bike and an even tougher attitude - she goes weak at the knees. Yet when Billie speeds off on a soul-searching bender through the Australian outback, Rosemary is left to ponder love and longevity, and weather a few adventures of her own.Cooped up for the summer with the eccentric Daphne - who is busy transforming her body into a tattooed biography of her mad mother's life - Rosemary unwittingly winds up with a leading role in a lesbian porn flick, loses her car to a shears-wielding murderer, and still finds time to compost her garden and miss Billie to no end. Yet as each woman's path twists through a hilarious comedy of manners and mishaps, one fact remains: relationships lie in the sometimes capable - sometimes careless - hands of coincidence.
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