In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

A police chief tries to solve a kidnapping that involves a bank robber holding a young boy hostage.

In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B. Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.