In September of 2018, one family in rural Starkfield, Massachusetts, finds the cultural, social, and political issues of the day becoming intensely personal, throwing their marriage, family life, their past, their future, and their values into doubt. Ethan Frome's wife, Zo, turns their home into a headquarters for the "Resistance" of women that has risen up against a Supreme Court nominee, while at the same time his old roommate and business partner is facing "metoo" allegations. His daughter, Alex, becomes more unruly and headstrong, and then Maddy Silver, the breezy, blue-dyed hair millennial, throws a further wrench into everything.