All those things no one ever tells you about motherhood It's like secret mothers' business Lots of my friends had babies before me but not one of them ever told me it would be this hard It's like a code of silence The Mothers' Group tells the story of six very different women who agree to regularly meet soon after the births of their babies Set during the first crucial year of their babies' lives The Mothers' Group tracks the women's individual journeys
- & the group's collective one
- as they navigate birth & motherhood as well as the shifting ground of their relationships with their partners Each woman strives in her own way to become the mother she wants to be & finds herself becoming increasingly reliant on the friendship & support of the members of the mothers' group Until one day an unthinkably shocking event changes everything testing their bonds & revealing closely-held secrets that threaten to shatter their lives