The grown Cooperberg siblings reluctantly assemble at the hospital to await the results of their father's surgery: Edward (Mark Blum), a theater producer and renowned womanizer, Eli (Ted Levine), the self-proclaimed poet who works in the family business and Susan (Amanda Plummer), the artist who still lives off her parents while justifying it as a "grant". Holding them all together while simultaneously pushing them apart is their mother, Shirley (Ellen Burstyn), who can't help but criticize her children's chosen paths in life, reducing them to a state of infancy. Wrought with divorce, infidelity and sexual confusion, the characters spiral out of control, only to realize that it is only by opening old wounds of the past that each one can face the future. Add an omnipresent nun (Genevieve Bujold), wives and ex-wives, an existentialist TV repairman, sexy nurses and other interesting characters and what results is a day you will never forget.