Charlie Quinn has spent her whole life doing everything "right." She got a steady, boring job that pays well. She found a stable man who s going to propose soon, she just knows it. She goes to the gym before dawn each morning, eats chicken with vegetables every night. And that s the way she likes it; after a chaotic childhood with her striving-actress of a mother, Charlie prizes stability and predictability above all else. But when, on her thirtieth birthday, she is let go from her job and her boyfriend leaves her suddenly because he thinks their life is too predictable (“I can t keep living the same day and calling it a life") Charlie s perfect plans and hard-won stability unravel at the seams. She has no choice but to say yes to her little sister’s pestering and go home to LA after seven years of avoiding it. Which means Charlie has to face her mother, a woman who routinely confers with Tarot cards on important life matters. Basical