في عام 1955، يجتمع مجموعة من الطلاب والآباء من أجل حضور مؤتمر خاص بالفضاء، ولكن يتعطل مسار المؤتمر حينما يتعرض العالم لسلسلة من الأحداث الغير متوقعة.

خلال فترة الأعياد، نيد (برايان كرانستون) الأب المُحافظ حد الإفراط - لكن مع حبه البالغ لعائلته - يتوجه بأسرته لزيارة ابنته في جامعة (ستانفورد)، حيث يقابل أعتى كوابيسه هناك، وهو صديقها حسن النية الأحمق اجتماعيًا، البليونير لايرد (جيمس فرانكو). والذي يعتقده نيد شخص غير لائق تمامًا لابنته.

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

Third-generation Florida beekeeper Ulee Jackson may have gotten out of Vietnam alive, but he left a part of himself behind. Now he methodically tends his bees, carefully provides for his two grandchildren and keeps his emotions at bay. But when a long-buried secret threatens Ulee's business and family, he is forced to break through his emotional walls and confront the terror of his wounded spirit.

Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student. The film is less a realistic exploration of gay life than a fairy tale of three young Japanese trying to construct an alternative to the sexual and familial roles given to them by a society turning increasingly emotionally barren.

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.