朱莉娅的父母遇到一个头疼的问题，他们的女儿的婚姻再次失败，朱莉娅已经够烦的，这时哈里埃德娜的到来更让她变得快疯了，她的阿姨克莱尔用尽办法也不能让侄女开心，究竟是什么原因让朱莉娅失去嫁人的勇气呢？In Connecticut, Agnes and Tobias are an upper-class married couple whose relationship has been uneasy for many years, since at least the time their son died; but they've managed to find a certain comfortable pattern of uneasiness. Agnes's sister, Claire, lives with them and insists that her perpetual drinking is not alcoholism but willfulness. Their daughter, Julia, poised to have her fourth divorce, has come back home. Unexpectedly, her room has been taken over by Harry and Edna, best friends of Tobias and Agnes. Seized by a nameless terror that propelled them out of their own house, Harry and Edna have decided to stay.
