(FULL LENGTH) A group of women convene at their friend Gwen's house for a book discussion group meeting. This week they are reading a book entitled The Tutor, which is the true story about a group of women lacemakers in the nineteenth century who improvise writing a novel about a male tutor, who comes to teach a young lady about English literature. In the story within the story (which is enacted by the lacemakers as they write it), the young lady, Emily, slowly falls in love with her tutor. The plot thickens when her sister threatens to tell everyone that the tutor impregnated her, and she could easily get away with it because the tutor's brother got her pregnant and ran off. In the present day, the contemporary women discuss the story that the lacemakers are writing as well as the true story of how they wrote it. As it begins to snow heavily, the ladies order a pizza. The pizza delivery person, April, robs the women and ties them up. As they sit there, April gets them to continue their book discussion, and she gets caught up in the plot, as well. What happens to the women after that is suspenseful as the book they are reading.