Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.