This is the story of a failed marriage between two well-meaning people of above-average integrity. Families, with all the eccentricities of their members, are crucibles of intense emotion. This film tells that story like it really is, complete with the love, ambitions, rivalries, jealousies, vindictiveness, doubts (of self and others), mistakes, frustrations, self-castigation, and all the rest of it. The characters are definitely not caricatures or two-dimensional cardboard cut-outs, they are real people who really want to make their family succeed, but fall down because they do not fully understand their own needs and motivations, or each other's. It has been said that "you always hurt the ones you love"; this film shows in excruciating detail just how, if not exactly why.
