Jean Copeland, an emotionally withdrawn wife and mother of two moves into her husband's childhood home to help take care of his elderly relatives. While Jean becomes embroiled in an affair with a suicidal lover, her oblivious husband Gordon worries he's losing his mind, their 19-year-old daughter Priscilla is desperate to become a reality TV star, and their 9-year-old son Otis has fallen in love for the very first time. As Gordon's father Theodore fades into dementia and his 95-year old matriarch wife Vivian desperately clings to control of the house, the six family members, at five stages of life, distill the dreams, worries, and regrets, of contemporary America.
