Beverly and Violet (Meryl Streep Meryl Streep) are an old couple. Nowadays, one of them keeps the relationship by drinking and the other by taking drugs. One morning, Beverly left the house and never came back. Violet had to call their three daughters as well as her cousin and cousin husband to the house. The second daughter Ivy arrives, and then the eldest daughter Barbara (Julia Roberts Julia Roberts) and her husband Bill (Ivan McGregor Ewan McGregor) also come a long way with their 14-year-old daughter. The bad news came immediately, and the police found Beverly's body in the lake. The cause of death was suicide. The youngest daughter Karen arrived at the funeral with her fiance. At the dinner table after the funeral, Violet, who was too high on drugs, began to lose his temper, while his worried daughters were on pins and needles. The eldest daughter Barbara couldn't stand her mother's harshness, and they quarreled loudly, revealing the hidden contradictions and hidden truths in the family.