Past: Proposals

Proposals recalls one idyllic summer afternoon. the last time the Himes family gathers at its retreat in the Poconos. Clemma, the family's African-American housekeeper dreads a visit from the husband who deserted her years before. Burt Hines, a recovering workaholic convalescing form a second heart attack, looks forward to the arrival of the ex-wife he still loves. Burt's daughter Josie has just broken her engagement to Ken, an intense Harvard law student, and she yearns for his buddy Ray, and aspiring writer with whom she had a brief affair,