At three forty five on a pleasant January afternoon, high school senior Miss Sharon Barbour, is walking home from the bus stop bent backward under a load of books, which she carries in the current fashion braced in tiers against her stomach. She's surprised to find her father's car in the driveway, but on entering the home, finds out that he has some business with Joan. Sharon can't wait to tell her mother about a gossip column she read today, discussing Joan's divorce...