Victoria (Mary Stuart Masterson) is a university professor holding a grudge against her self-absorbed mother, the famed actress Carmen Crawford (Diane Ladd has a blast with this highly dramatic mother role). Victoria blames her mother, Carmen, for crushing her dreams of becoming a playwright.

When Carmen suffers a life-threatening stroke and wakes up thinking she is living 15 years in the past, Victoria is given a unique opportunity to figure out where her life went off track...and perhaps even reconcile her fractured relationship with her mother.

With wonderful performances by two extraordinary leading ladies, ably supported by actors Andrew McCarthy and Sam Robards, ISLE OF HOPE is a sharply observed portrait of family - and all the messiness that implies.