À vingt-deux ans, Carla Tate (Juliette Lewis) est une jeune femme handicapée mentalement. Après avoir passé plusieurs années dans un pensionnat privé, elle rentre enfin à la maison retrouver ses riches parents dans le nord de la Californie. Mais la famille n'arrive par à faire face à son handicap. Carla doit alors tenir tête à sa mère surprotectrice, Elizabeth (Diane Keaton), tout en rêvant de son indépendance amoureuse avec Daniel (Giovanni Ribisi). Arrivera-t-elle a assumer ses responsabilités ?.
A woman and her closeted brother meet a man sunbathing on a gravestone and invite him to be their lodger. Their elderly father, however, recognises him as the killer of his old boss. Past sins could be forgiven if he agrees to the siblings' demands..
In 1929, Mr. Messier, owner of a small print shop in a village in Quebec became a widower, he lives with his two children, Rachel, 9 years old, and Gaëtan, 7 years old. In this closed universe and in the absence of their mother, a great complicity is established between the children..
