As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.

While their parents fight over the possibility of selling their family home during the Great Depression, two young sisters watch, and, in order to cope, one of the sisters forms a strong attachment to a stray cat in their neighborhood.

A middle-aged Californian woman questions the happiness of her life and decades-long marriage as she travels to the vineyard she owns with her husband.