It's matters of divorce, rape, and mental illness in the 1950s and 1960s. Dolores Price has been through a lot, and not surprisingly she's a class-A emotional basket case. With a violent, philandering father and a marshmallow-soft mother, she's suffered abuse and other familial misfortunes. Nor are the men in Dolores' life prizes either. But she's a fighter who battles hardship with self-indulgence and gluttony in a dysfunctional, Mallomar-munching world.