Two squabbling TV hosts are sent to a festive small town over Christmas. While pretending to get along for the sake of appearances, they discover there's more to each other than they thought.

Ben's dad, Sam, shows up one night with a note that Ben's mother has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that is for sale.

Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.

A shop assistant, her cook husband, and their twin daughters ponder their lives over a few weeks in a working-class suburb north of London.

A family driven apart by having to make choices no parent would ever want to make.