Plot
Manhattan lawyer Diane Hudson's husband Mark demands a divorce, just before their dinner party with friends begins. Devastated, she sits silently through the evening. Later, Diane announces she and their teens Zoe and Jake are heading to Woodstock to stay with her estranged hippie mother.
Driving to the village in silence, Diane breaks the news upon arriving at Grace's. Her daughter Zoe is shocked, as she has been away atColumbia. However, Jake expresses relief because he has witnessed their parents' fights.
Entering the Bohemian home, with chickens wandering freely inside, they pass through a bead curtain, finding Grace at her pottery wheel. The eternal hippie dreamed about their coming. Not having seen each other for 20 years, the stiff Diane lets her mother hug her.
Inside, both Zoe and Jake ask questions, but he does while filming. It soon becomes evident that Diane is politically conservative, while Grace is the complete opposite. Although she has not revealed why she broke their 20-year silence, Grace is grateful. Diane requests her mother refrain from her usual activities, specifically with men. Grace promises to try.
On Saturday, the four head downtown, where Grace participates in a weekly anti-war protest. At first opportunity, Diane extracts herself and the kids from the demonstration to shop, entering a butcher's, which appalls the vegetarian, Zoe. The young butcher Cole is both organic and conscientious.
Grace invites the protesters over on Sunday. There, Diane meets Jude Fisher, Jake notices fellow teen Lucy and Zoe talks with Cole, who normally participates in the protest but had to work. As the film progresses, each of the Hudsons become connected with these Woodstock residents.
Zoe initially sees Cole as vastly different from herself. Uncomfortable he is a butcher, she believes he lacks compassion. However, through their mutual admiration of several writers, Zoe warms to him. They kiss, and eventually are intimate. However, Cole hits a deer with his vehicle, so shoots it dead. Shocked, Zoe barely acknowledges him when he drops her at Grace’s.
Diane and Jude take awhile to sync. Initially rebuffed, after taking her to a remote lake where he skinny dips, she jumps in with him. Diane tells Jude her kids convinced her to stay longer.
Performing onstage in Woodstock’s town center, Jude convinces Diane to sing a duet, which he finishes with a passionate kiss. Both of her children are surprised, but Zoe gets upset and leaves, so Cole follows. After she explains her parents are not divorced yet, he defends Diane. Zoe is mad he does not side with her.
When Zoe returns home, she refuses to listen to Diane, blaming her mother for the divorce. The next day, Grace tells her she was cruel to Diane the night before. One day Zoe will understand that sometimes things need to change and transform.
Diane goes to Jude's. He shows her some of his woodworking projects. They later give in to their mutual attraction, making love in his living room.
That night, Grace and Woodstock womenfolk celebrate a full moon circle, playing drums and chanting around a bonfire, occasionally howling at the moon. Diane at first does not participate, while Zoe does. Later, the daughter apologizes for being harsh the previous night, as she realizes she must accept her mother needs to move on.
The group plays "True or False" with tequila. Some tell mostly true, outrageous stories. When they insist Diana try, she does, but is terrible at lying. After Zoe leaves with Cole, a drunk Diane continues. She tells them the skinny-dipping story, then sleeping with him the next morning. Nobody believes it is true, so she names Jude, who she then discovers had previously slept with Grace.
Diane confronts Jude and her mother about their sleeping together. They explain it happened a long time ago, when Grace was grieving her husband's abandonment and mother's death, so Jude tried to help her cope.
Diane drives the children back to NYC in the morning, blaming Grace's egocentrism. Grace had sold marijuana at Diane’s wedding reception. Furious, Diane had called the police.
Back in New York, Diane's divorce is finalized. Jake stays in touch with Lucy while working on his film "Love in Woodstock". Accepted into the New York Youth Film Festival, everyone comes to see it. As it heals any bad feelings, a short time later, the Hudsons move to Grace’s in Woodstock.
