Sisters-in-law share stories, told in flashback, of defining moments in their relations with their men.
Coming to WAITING WOMEN after SUMMER INTERLUDE makes WAITING WOMEN seems less consequential than it probably is. WAITING WOMEN has no sequence like the summer love affair, no poetic rapture to linger in your mind for days. The stories are matter-of-fact psychological character studies. Human truths are revealed from a human perspective. The God's-eye omniscience of SUMMER INTERLUDE is nowhere in evidence.
WAITING WOMEN is about what comes after first love. However, there is a generational shift in perspective which provides a more mature, more experienced point of view than the immediacy and raw emotion of SUMMER INTERLUDE. These women are all adults. The only teenager in the film is in the midst of her own first love, and her older sister and aunts indulge her idealism while sharing knowing glances. Their idealism has run its course, and they are now simply living their lives.
