Roger Cobb, a divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son, inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatural residents.
Kort etter å ha flyttet inn i sin nye leilighet, får David uønsket besøk av nylig avdøde Elizabeth Martinson som hevder at leiligheten er hennes.
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
Attractive and sexy 1960's era suburban housewives, all dressed in mid-century modern pitch-perfect styles, are hell bent on one-upping each other as "Hostess with the Mostess." They hold dinner parties that become increasingly boozy, flirtatious and wild -- and soon more than recipes get swapped.
A woman, pregnant after a one-night stand with her neighbor, sleeps with a businessman to pass off the baby as his.