Domineering former actress Diane (Bernadette Peters) and her teenage daughter Alice (Rachel Brosnahan) entertain dreams of a better life while battling depression and financial destitution in a small American town locked in the grip of the 1980s recession. Faced with the bitter reality that their situation isn't likely to improve anytime soon, the desperate pair finds their fierce determination to endure slowly crumbling under the crushing weight of reality.

~Jason Buchanan, Rovi