Richard and Anne's marriage has become a victim of his career ambitions and her degree studies, leaving the children to sense something is wrong. A look at a failed marriage from both perspectives, within the same timeframe.
When Lena, a 15-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome, steals a sex book from a mobile library, her mother forces her to take it back in an embarrassing family spectacle that only strengthens her daughter's rebellious and irrepressible desire.