In the novel Hours, we read the stories of the destinies of three women who want a fuller life. They live in different times and environments, but with the same longing for a different, more meaningful life. Thus we meet Virginia Woolf, who in the early twenties on the outskirts of London is struggling to write the novel Mrs. Dalloway and longs to return to London. Laura Brown in Los Angeles at the end of World War II reads Mrs. Dalloway, thinks about its author and seeks the strength to radically change her life. The last, Clarisse Vaughan, is a contemporary of Mrs. Dalloway, who lives in present-day New York and devotes most of her strength and energy to her friend Richard, a great poet who is dying of AIDS.