The story is about a group of five single mothers with very different backgrounds who come together when their 11 to 12-year-old kids collectively get in trouble at their private school.
Hillary has three kids, her ex-husband refuses to pay child support because she has the house. Jan is an executive and struggles to hold on to her stressful publishing career. May is a journalist, aspires to be an author, has a drug-addict ex and a teenage son interested to know more about his dad. Esperanza hides her new boyfriend Manny from her ex-husband Santos because she fears she might lose his financial support. Lytia, a sassy waitress, tries to keep her youngest son from falling into a life of crime.