Kate (Andie MacDowell), is a headmistress at a girls' school in a small English town: forty year old, successful and respectable, and on her own. Every Monday, she gets together with her other single friends, Molly (Anna Chancellor), and Janine (Imelda Staunton), where they drink gin, eat chocolate and decide who is the 'Saddest of the Week'. Then Kate meets Jed, an organ player at the local church, and her whole world is turned upside down.