It all begins with the parting of dark purple velvet curtains, revealing the yellow-green walls of the fellowship hall of the First Baptist Church of Ivy Gap. Littered about the room are white crates painted with ubiquitous red crosses. The year is 1945, and the task is making bandages for the boys at war. One by one, the women of Ivy Gap get ready to work, and the audience gets ready to be charmed by six genuine, loveable Southern ladies.
