After the death of her best friend and long-time roommate Bessie, Eleanor leaves Florida for New York City, where she moves in with her daughter Lisa and grandson Max. During a visit to the Manhattan Jewish Community Center, Eleanor stumbles her way into a support group for Holocaust survivors and, joining their circle, begins to tell her own story. Except, unbeknownst to everyone listening, it isn’t Eleanor’s story — it’s Bessie’s. Eleanor the Great takes on the weightiest of subjects with the lightest of touches. Compulsively chatty, ultra-opinionated, and lacking in boundaries, Eleanor is a hoot.
