Sylvia and her lawyer husband Daniel have three children two boys who are away at college and Allegra, an attractive young lesbian. Prudie is not enthusiastic until Bernadette comes up with the idea of reading Jane Austen's novels. Over coffee, Bernadette suggest that Prudie join their book club. Prudie's husband Dean has just cancelled their trip to Paris and she is very upset. While waiting in line to see 'Mansfield Park', Bernadette strikes up a conversation with a tearful Prudie, who teaches French at the local high school. They decide to start a book discussion group. Her friends Bernadette and Sylvia try to think of ways to distract her. Single and childless Jocelyn is devastated at the loss of one of her prize-winning Rhodesian ridgebacks. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil While reading the novels, their lives entwine with the characters of the writer, leading each one of them to find what is looking for in love. But Jocelyn does not understand the feelings of Grigg.

Aleggra falls in love for Corinne and tells her private life to her affair. Meanwhile, Prudie's marriage with Dean is in crisis and she flirts with the student Trey. They plan to read and discuss the novels 'Sense and Sensibility' (1811), 'Pride and Prejudice' (1813), 'Mansfield Park' (1814), 'Emma (1816), 'Northanger Abbey' (1818) and 'Persuasion' (1818), one per month. Meanwhile the sci-fi fan Grigg, who owns a software company and was raised with three sisters, flirts with Jocelyn and she invites him to join the club with the intention of introducing him to Sylvia. When Sylvia's husband Daniel dumps her for a younger woman, Bernadette and Jocelyn organize a reading club of Jane Austen to distract her with Allegra and Prudie. In California, the favorite dog of the lonely Jocelyn dies and she meets her best friends in the funeral: the six times divorced Bernadette the housewife Sylvia and her lesbian daughter Allegra and the young French teacher Prudie, whose mother is a dysfunctional woman.

Sense and sensibility cliff notes