an open door

It’s 1948 and young Edith Sloan runs away from her dull, hard-working husband, Walter, a law student at Harvard, after he tells her to put her academic dreams on hold. His rising career requires a “certain kind of wife,” one in the kitchen preparing dinner and drinks for important guests. In New York, Edith works at the recently established United Nations and vows not to return to Boston until Walter’s pleas get the better of her. Back home, she wonders how she can find fulfillment as a second-class citizen. The answer presents itself when a beloved local bookstore goes up for sale. Can she swing it, and succeed as a business owner? Will Walter permit it? Trapped by marriage and her husband’s ambition, Edith struggles to find her footing and the means to her own survival.