Zgodba prikazuje življenje družine, ki se trudi, da bi ohranila življenje na veliki nogi v zelo materialistični skupnosti v Novi Angliji.Kyra Sedgwick igra matriarhinjo, ki jo bolj kot to, da bi možu izkazovala ljubezen, zanima zunanji videz. Nagovori ga, da se loti nepremičninskega posla, za katerega pa se pozneje izkaže, da je polomija.
Revolves around a family struggling to maintain their well-to-do lifestyle in their overly materialistic New England community. Sedgwick plays the matriarch, who is more interested in appearances than for caring or showing affection toward her husband (D'Onofrio) and pushes him into a bad real estate deal.