After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Judi Dench
Ian Holm
Joan Sims
June Whitfield
Olympia Dukakis
Billie Whitelaw
Leslie Caron
Cleo Laine
Romola Garai
James Cosmo
Thelma Ruby
Millie Findlay
Felicity Dean
Nicholas Palliser
Valentine Pelka
Carla MacKinnon
Dom Chapman
John Warnaby