The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys

"Dao Strom lights the path four women take on their journey to adulthood: through college and youthful solitude, to complicated marriages and motherhood." Mary is a college film student full of yearning who's confounded by the casual give-and-take of the people around her; Darcy, a twenty-something musician, must confront the dark and unknown in the form of a naked stranger who repeatedly breaks into her ramshackle sublet; Leena, aged 30, is isolated and alone after having been transplanted from Vietnam to Texas through marriage to an American businessman; and finally Sage, a new mother in her early thirties who finds herself, while on a road trip with her four-year-old boy and his father, entertaining thoughts of new romantic possibilities.