 Joe Gardner, a child of the Depression, is a successful plastics manufacturer in Seattle, Washington. After his wife dies, his four adult children move back in. Anne, 35 and an ex-hippie, has been divorced twice and returns with her two children David and Sunny. Lindley, 31, is a sales representative in her father s company and a new mother. Jack, 30, is a drifter "trying to find himself." And Joe,(THIS NAME "JOE" SHOULD BE SAM) a preppie, married to Kay, a free-spirit.