Everyone has wounds, some deeper than others. If you don't lick them now and then, how will they ever heal? Licking them often may not make them heal any faster, though. After three years as classmates, three seventeen-year-old girls went their separate ways, each embarking on a different life. They faced marital betrayal, workplace bullying, career stagnation, and one hardship after another, yet they could still hold their heads high. When they reunited at fifty, the past was like smoke, like wind and rain, merciless all the same. An ordinary life, a tribute to the hardworking generation born in the seventies!