About the Film

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Five women are trapped in a forest cabin during a snowstorm. Four of them want to sleep with Ellie.

A young innocent woman wanders into a lesbian summer community and promptly captures the heart of the resident heartbreaker.

Two women are living out an idyllic and back-breaking life of back-to-the-land, when an ex-boyfriend suddenly shows up to further test the bonds of their relationship.

Thirty years ago gay marriage and entire cable channels aimed at gay and lesbian audiences would have seemed impossible. One playwright did see her extended lesbian and gay community as a family and her fourteen-year relationship with another woman as a marriage. She re-created these visions in her plays - a lesbian wedding scene in My Blue Heaven, the extended family in Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, the ménage-a-cinq fantasy of A Late Snow. Her plays have been in production ever since.

A generation after Chambers' death her work has become more socially relevant and remains, as always, hysterically funny. This documentary brings Chambers' life, loves, and her struggles as a writer, both personal and political, to the forefront.