In a New Jersey suburb, three sisters and their friends navigate their lives filled with unfulfilled desires and societal pressures. Joy, the youngest sister, is a struggling musician who works a tedious office job. Despite her best efforts to find love, she endures a series of disappointing relationships, including one with Andy, a colleague who breaks up with her in a painfully awkward scene. Meanwhile, her older sister Helen is a successful but self-absorbed author who becomes increasingly disenchanted with her seemingly glamorous life. Her creative exploits offer little solace as she engages in pointless banter with Allen, her lonely neighbor with odd fascinations, who hides his perverted impulses behind a facade of crass phone calls.

The eldest sister, Trish, appears to be living an idyllic suburban existence with her psychiatrist husband, Bill, and their children. However, beneath the surface, Bill grapples with disturbing sexual compulsions and is secretly consumed by guilt and shame. Trish remains oblivious to his dark predilections as she busies herself with household affairs. To further complicate matters, their parents are coping with their own emotional crises as they announce their separation after decades of marriage. Through a complex web of interactions, the film explores themes of alienation, longing, and the secret lives we lead beneath societal facades. Each character's pursuit of happiness reveals the stark contrast between appearances and reality as human desires clash with darker instincts just beneath the surface.