Caroline Duffy is a successful cartoonist in Manhattan whose eclectic friends are sometimes the subjects of her comic strip.

Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife, investigates her own mysterious disappearance alongside a group of other students who are also stuck in limbo at their high school. Maddie goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high-school purgatory, but the closer she gets to discovering the truth, the more secrets and lies she uncovers.

故事发生在繁华而又绚丽的大都市纽约，妮可（基姆·瑞弗 Kim Raver 饰）、温蒂（波姬·小丝 Brooke Shields 饰）和维克多（琳赛·普莱斯 Lindsay Price 饰）三人是关系十分紧密的好友。
妮可身为知名时尚杂志总编，“身怀绝技”却依然在职场中处处受到性别的制约，她决定再接再厉，证明自己的实力，顶替无用的男上司。温蒂是一名制片人，在她的内心里，一直希望能够拍出一部能够竞争奥斯卡奖的真正的“大片”。服装设计师维克多尽管已经在业界打拼出了属于自己的一片天下，但她并不满足于此，而是希望能将触角伸向全球。这些在职场上经营得风生水起的女人们，在情感上却有着各自无法调和的矛盾和无法解决的难题。在城市森林里艰难生存的她们唯有彼此帮助，彼此依靠，才能获得继续生活的勇气和希望。