The hours

In 1929 Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel 'Mrs. Dalloway ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951 Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001 Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it one is reading it and one is living it.