A young Jewish couple Pearl Kantrowitz (Diane Lane) and Marty (Liev Schreiber) take their two children, their young teenage daughter Alison (Anna Paquin), and a younger son to a bungalow in the Catskills. Pearl has really become bored with her life and to top things off Marty can only get up to the bungalow on weekends because he has to work. Pearl gets involved with a young Vietnam veteran named Jerome (Viggo Mortenson) and they make love for the first time the same day the first men walk on the moon. Marty’s mother learns of the affair nut is unable to get Pearl to end it. She is seen by her daughter at the nearby Woodstock rock festival with Jerome. Marty finds out what is going on and confronts Pearl.