Cathy is the perfect '50s housewife, living the perfect '50s life: with
healthy kids, a successful husband, and social prominence. Then one
night she surprises her husband Frank, as he is kissing another man, and
her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and
grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American
gardener, Raymond--a socially taboo relationship that leads to the
further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's
struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality
and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in
their lives.