A New York writer of gothic fiction finds her mansion full of ghosts from a brothel massacre.
Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, considers his life to be an empty failure. Awake one morning after a sleepless night, he comes to a decision: this evening he will take a rifle and shoot and kill his wife, their three children and then himself.
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
