Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only around the corner. This story tells how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.
Frank and April Wheeler become dissolutioned with their mediocre lives and decide to move to France in order to develop their true artistic sensibilities.
New York intellectuals Frank and April Wheeler move to the suburbs of Connecticut in 1955 and soon learn that the American dream is not at all what they expected.
