故事背景設立在當代的芝加哥；四個寡婦維若妮卡、愛麗絲、琳達以及貝兒，這四個原先生命毫無交集的女人，唯一的共通點就只有她們死去的無能丈夫都因犯罪行為而欠下了一屁股債給她們。

現在，她們決定必須要拿回人生主導權，打造一個自己能夠主宰的未來。

(轉載自 - 二十世紀福斯)

Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.