Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife,
in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping
deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he
becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his
daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door
named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.