A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted offsprings from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia and their sole biological offspring — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their offsprings.
James and his wife Catherine, who are already in an open relationship, are drawn into a small group of odd characters who are sexually aroused by automobile crashes. Catherine eventually has sex with the group’s leader in the backseat of the car while her husband watches from the front seat through the rearview mirror.
In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a neighbor.
Two musicians become a couple, but the female cheats on the male with a music producer.
In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way the two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on Kay finally dates her trumpet playing foreman and life gets complicated
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