Synopsis

A well-off couple raise their children in the comfort of country club society, only to find their control over the family's fate slipping away. Daughter Ruth leaves for the artistic bohemia of New York, more conventional Carolyn marries the "wrong sort" of man, and brother Douglas joins the army. In an empty house, the Bridges' relationship shifts, exposing a wryly emotional portrait of a marriage as it rides the tumultuous changes of 1930's and '40's America.