Based on Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Hours draws on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of three women: Woolf, who is portrayed in the throes of writing Mrs. Dalloway and contemplating suicide; Laura Brown, a young wife and mother in the suffocating confines of her tidy little life in Los Angeles in 1949; and Clarissa Vaughn, who is giving a party in the present in New York for her closest friend, Richard, an award-winning writer dying of AIDS.