MONTAGE
The economic crash, garbage blows down empty Main Street. Sparkle lets her beloved employees go.
Sparkle envisions herself in a life of a Private Investigator; she fantasizes herself as a glamorous sleuth.
Her Beloved three employee /clients share a dumpy house while Sparkle studies hard to get her license.
Nadine, Lillian, and Caroline barter their hairstyles to help Sparkle keep the salon up. Lillian sweeps up Carolines hair while Nadine is filling up shampoo bottles.
I say rob a bank, Nadine speaks out. Life seems to be falling apart for the Baby Boomers; pensions shrinking, college kids unemployed, sick husbands, and a son in prison.
Sparkle gets her PI licensed and moves a small desk in the back room of the salon, hangs sign under the at Sparkles Salon that reads, "Private Investigator".
Things seem to be going again when Ms Clemons threatens to take over the salon, which is being held as collateral for the loan for Sparkles PI School.
The ladies are dismayed and volunteer to work at salon and help gain back some of the hair clients.
The ladies are enjoying their hairstyles again and extra money at the salon; when Sparkle is baffled over her first case involving a senior match making scheme, which one of her clients’ mothers is involved.
She hires the threesome for her first case.
Now they are considered Sparkle and C.R.E.W. (Crazy Retired Eccentric Women).
Sparkle maintains the salon, and her operatives help solve her cases in the most outlandish ways.
