One dress five women a lifetime of memoriesFive single fiercely independent women live together in a Chicago apartment in the early s but rarely see one another One Saturday afternoon as they are serendipitously together downtown they spy a wedding dress in a storefront window at the famous Carson Pirie Scott Co After trying it onxmuch to the dismay of the salesclerk and without a single boyfriend or date between the five of themxthey decide to pool their money to purchase it Can one dress forever connect five women who live together only a short time before taking their own journeys to love and whatever comes happily ever after