Wendy (Laura Lynne Laura Linney) is a 38-year-old playwright who lives in New York. She can barely make ends meet in her job. She has no marriage and has an improper relationship with a married man. Her life is a mess. She has a chic brother, Jon (Philip Seamer Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman), who works as a university professor in Buffalo, looking smug, but also has his own troubles-his girlfriend is about to leave him and return to Eastern Europe, and he is very sad, but he doesn't want to stay because he doesn't want to get married. One day, when he learns that his father (Philip Posco Philip Bosco) has Alzheimer's disease, the brother and sister who have not been in touch for a long time get together and settle their father in a nursing home to take care of him in rotation. In the course of this trouble and quarrel, the two brothers and sisters recalled the autocratic and irresponsible past of their father in their childhood, rethought the meaning of "family" in comparison with their respective loneliness, and their father's death was coming.