It is the year before Hannah s tradi-

tional church wedding-a wedding

that is to become a symbol for a mother

and daughter of how each has irrevoca-

bly marked the other s life.

Beverly, the mother, forty and di-

vorced, is reluctant to marry her lover

of seven years, and perplexed over a

girl who is everything she wanted a

daughter to be and everything she

herself is not.