Like other well-meaning mothers,
Julie Mueller's believed
she did the right thing when she secretly ended her teenage
daughter's crush on Michael Slayton, a wild older
neighborhood heartthrob with a penchant for Shakespeare
and the pedigree of trailer trash.
Twenty years later, Betty Mueller has come to realize that
was a big mistake. Her daughter Julie -- divorced and
raising a teenage daughter alone -- is a workaholic
obsessed with her career. And Michael, the one man who
could make her happy, is the one man to whom she won't
speak.
Now dying and determined to make amends, Betty stages her last
great feat of motherhood by reuniting the couple in a dessert
class where she hopes the sweetness of a chocolate almond Torta
Caprese will erase the bitterness of a wretched misunderstanding.
"Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said thy edge
should blunter be than appetite," Shakespeare once
pleaded - though it will require more than poetry and passion
fruit for Julie and Michael to renew their love.
It will, in fact, require the sweetest sacrifice of all.
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