When Katherin faces an unexpected pregnancy, she returns to the pastel sprawl of suburban Florida, where her parents, Jim and Susan, have spent decades in a peculiar state of together-but-not-together. In a house indistinguishable from the next, her mother—a once-ambitious, fiercely independent woman—remains stuck, sharing space with the ex-husband she somehow never managed to evict.

Determined to understand how her mother’s life veered so far from the one she imagined, Katherin digs into their past, uncovering a tangle of anxieties, abandoned dreams, and generational patterns of avoidance. Jim’s overly-fragile artistic ambitions crushed by a pressure to provide for his family, which he ultimately failed to do, and Susan’s quiet struggle to assert her independence within the traditional values of her religious family stifled her. Somewhere in their silent detachment, Katherin suspects, the whole family learned to keep their distance—even from themselves.

When Susan reveals that she also became a mother unexpectedly, an undeniable parallel forms between mother and daughter and Katherin must face her own ambivalence about family-life. Mother and daughter share a rare moment of intimacy as they discuss generational expectations, the clash of feminism and motherhood, and the opportunities for transformation having a child presents.