1974

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.