In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
