marital conflict

Having married quickly during World War II after falling in love at first sight, a mismatched couple discovers that their different personalities and approaches to life are taking a toll on their relationship and their family.

Gwen Lewis seems to lead the perfect life in Manhattan, with the perfect job, the perfect apartment, and the perfect boyfriend, until she meets Gideon Wolkowitz, an impoverished puppeteer who teaches Gwen about love, life, and heartache.

Unaware of one another's mutual discontent, a mother and daughter embark on parallel quests to escape their unhappy suburban lives, and while seventeen-year-old Cammy, convinced she was actually adopted, is drawn into a world of sex and drugs, her mother, Sam, begins an adulterous affair.

Beefeater Balthazar Jones finds his already chaotic life living in the Tower of London with a group of eccentric individuals getting even more complicated when he is assigned to set up housing within the attraction's walls for exotic animals gifted to the queen, his wife leaves him, and his 120-year-old tortoise runs away.

Anna struggles to adjust after a three-week stay in the mental hospital, and, although she misses Justin, Anna is weary to ask about the goings on back at the hospital and begins to suspect she may be the cause of tension between her parents.

Lucy Carleton is forced by her domineering husband to seek help for her laudanum addiction with neurologist and hypnotist Dr. Victor Seth; however, the doctor has his own agenda where Lucy is concerned.