An act of infidelity tears apart the members of a Depression-era family Friends always envied the Crown marriage but for Lucy something was missing. During a family trip to Vermont in the summer of 1937 her husband Oliver is called away. When Lucy falls into an affair with a younger man her son Tony walks in on them. The betrayal rips apart the family ultimately estranging Lucy from her son. Twenty years later the two run into each other at a bar in Paris and Lucy realizes that she may have found her best chance at absolution.