A pair of one-night stands during the Northeast Blackout of 1965 come back to haunt two couples when one moves in next to the other at an active adult community 43 years later. 

*An adaptation of the produced Senior stage play of the same name.

SYNOPSIS:

Barbara Allen, 75, struggles with writer’s block as her sex-advice column deadline approaches. Her live-in boyfriend Charlie Miller, 75, and neighbors Tom and Rita Carpenter, and their daughter Selena offer no inspiration. When new neighbors Mike and Kiki Daniels move in with their son Jason, Barbara hopes he and Selena, both 42 and single, will connect at a cookout. However, their families’ contrasting political views create tension: the Daniels are conservative ex-military, while the Carpenters are liberal former anti-war protesters.

At the cookout, Jason and Selena are interested in each other but divided by politics. Meanwhile, as the four parents engage in a discussion about their respective lifestyle differences, each suspect they met the opposite spouse before. Barbara's plan to match Jason and Selena falters when her editor shortens her column’s deadline to three o'clock the next day, then worsens after Selena mocks Jason's tattoo commemorating his late fiancée’s death during the last days of the Gulf War. Jason runs off into the night. Selena chases after him and tries to apologize.

Back at the cookout, Barbara gets Kiki to confess her infidelity with Mike during the 1965 Northeast Blackout, shocking Rita, who remembers her own one-night stand that night. Later, Charlie says he has only kissed one other woman in his entire life besides his late wife, Cindy, and Barbara: a 5-year-old ‘angel’ in a kindergarten Christmas play, Valentina Vespera. Mike then brags that he cheated on Kiki during the Northeast Blackout. Like Rita, Tom remembers his own one-nighter that night.

That evening, while Barbara prepares for bed, her editor calls and informs her that he now needs her column by noon the next day. Charlie, hoping to help, suggests that Barbara write about Mike’s one-night stand during the blackout. Barbara, delighted by Charlie’s suggestion, shares Kiki’s infidelity on the same night. At the same time, Rita and Tom disclose what Kiki and Mike had revealed to them earlier in confidence. Rita and Tom are stunned when they realize they were the ones Mike and Kiki had sex with the night of the blackout.

The next morning, Barbara’s editor calls and informs her that he requires the column by ten o’clock or she’ll lose her job. Barbara feels hopeless until Charlie reveals that Jason and Selena had slept overnight in the empty condo next door, letting her continue her Romeo and Juliet tale. Meanwhile, Tom and Rita reveal their identities to Kiki and Mike. After the four parents become aware of their spouse’s one-night indiscretion, tensions arise. Barbara quiets the combatants but then receives another call from the editor’s cell phone. The caller is the editor’s wife, who had become aware of his infidelity, ended their marriage, and now offers Barbara the editor position.

Everyone’s happiness fades when they learn Jason and Selena, now engaged, were born on the same day—nine months after the blackout! Pending DNA testing, Barbara, a former Army nurse, compares blood types and rules out Tom and Mike as potential fathers to Jason and Selena. As the engagement celebration begins, a real estate agent arrives to give a tour of the vacant condo to an elderly Italian woman who introduces herself as Valentina Vespera. Charlie is shocked. So is Barbara after Valentina throws her arms around Charlie and smothers him with kisses.