Without A Pail

Jackie Evans, a prominent New York attorney who was well on her way to making partner, left her career, her home, and family behind to follow a southern girl named Suzanne to South Carolina. Jackie spends the next four years of her life dealing with neglect and infidelity, until the day she heard those dreadful words ‘I don’t love you anymore.' Now with her dreams shattered and her heart broken, she moves back to Manhattan and in with her fortune teller sister. While she tries to resurrect her law career, she takes up dog walking as a distraction where she meets a fellow dog walker named Casey and embarks on a new but casual relationship. Soon after, she finds an associate position at a family law firm that specializes in divorce law. Jillian Abbott, the wife of a wealthy aristocrat, is blindsided by divorce papers and is forced to leave her home of twenty years. She moves into a posh Manhattan penthouse overlooking Central Park and obtains a lawyer to help her fight the battle to regain what is rightfully hers in the divorce settlement. But as Jill tries to rebuild her life, she soon realizes that the lifelong attraction she has for women is much more than curiosity. When her dog walker and friend Casey suggests an impromptu ‘coming out’ dinner party, Jill comes face to face with a woman she had not only met the night before at a client dinner, but had shamelessly come on to. She is taken aback by Jackie’s presence in her apartment realizing she is Casey’s girlfriend; however, despite that fact, Jill cannot deny her intense attraction to Jackie. But when Suzanne comes back into town, she throws a wrench into Jackie’s world, begging for another chance. As these worlds begin to collide, Jackie struggles with her feelings, old ghosts, and the forces which are leading her heart to a place she is terrified to go…up that hill without a pail.