the story

Eight friends gather for their 20th college reunion at the University of New Mexico. Some have stayed in touch; some haven’t. But they were a tight group 20 years before and they pick up where they left off when leaving college.

They are all professionally successful in their own way. Donna is a prominent doctor. Jason is a high-powered advertising exec. One’s an IT guy. Another owns a nail salon. One owns five restaurants. Another is a CPA. But they all have one thing in common: they all hate their jobs. They’re in their forties and things haven’t turned out like they planned.

After the reunion party, they decide to stay for a week in the rented house. At the first night’s dinner, they all fantasize about what they really would like to do as a profession. One wants to be an artist, another a yoga teacher, a movie director, a teacher, a chef, a detective, a sex therapist, and, of all things, a priest.

“So, we all know what we want to be, but can’t,” says the doctor.

“Unless…”

Unless they can. For a week, anyway, while there in the house, they decide to change jobs and be what they want to be. They are going to be a sex therapist, an artist, and all the rest, and do what they really want to do. And it all goes hilariously wrong.

In the process, they realize what it means to have old friends and live the life they are meant to live. In the end, they say, the stress is killing me, but they wouldn’t want it any other way.