Rip Tom plays Alan, a legendary music producer living in Memphis-a big fish in a small pond. He lives with his beautiful Russian wife, Laura, and their son. When Michael, his adult son, comes home, tensions stemming from a jealous, ugly relationship with his father returned with him. The situation is made even messier when Michael begins an affair with Laura. Regardless of the storied history between the father and son, Laura is really the lynchpin of the film. Ira Sachs revisits themes of alienation and people living simultaneously in- and outside their environments, and how beautiful women are often overlooked as peripheral attachments to powerful men. Laura′s slow, difficult awakening forces viewers to rethink their assumptions of her-and women like her. Sachs goes so far as to offer stylistic representations of our preconceptions only to destroy them as Laura′s complexity becomes obvious. Ironically, Sachs based the story on his own divorced father′s multiple girlfriends and his fascination with them.