A family unit begins to bow under the pressure of a failing marriage.

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

Edna wins a recording contract singing her own song at a competition in 1958. After trying to make it as a singer/songwriter for 11 months in NYC, she has success writing songs for others at the Brill Building.

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.