After immigrating to the United States, three generations of women from one family struggle to define womanhood, gender roles, and the rules of their relationship to one another. Mama, the oldest woman, preaches and teaches patriarchy to her daughters and respect for one’s elders but practices matriarchy, ruling with an iron tongue. Mama’s daughters struggle to balance individualism with the ideas they have come to learn from mama’s rhetoric while navigating their own relationships with their partners. Papa, mama’s husband, provides comic relief through his ironic responses while Michael, mama’s only son - and favorite child- ignites the drama and tensions between the women. Will mama’s attempts to make her daughters better equipped to succeed in life make them more resilient or will it debilitate them?