HOLLY GOLD, a divorced woman in her late forties

LEN GOLD, her father, a man in his eighties, owner of a quality control chemical laboratory, who is losing his business

BLOSSOM GOLD, her mother a small bird-like woman – also in her eighties, a retired town manager who has a memory problem and a clothing fetish

FERN DUMAS GOLD, her older sister, an attorney and a single parent who lives in a nearby city 

SUSAN ANDERSON, a young social worker from a local senior citizen agency