Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty

Once upon a time, Fern and Edgar were impoverished young rebels in love, proving their independence from the vast wealth of their respective families. Eventually, as their own children arrived, they settled into their roles as a "son and daughter of ease and plenty" in a Cambridge, MA, home with a summer place on Martha's Vineyard. Shockingly, after the death of Fern's wealthy parents, it all vanishes. She learns that all the family's old money has been given to others. Edgar, after eschewing his parents' so-new-as-to-be-almost-vulgar riches, has let Fern's funds quietly support their young family. Suddenly untethered, Edgar breaks his marital bonds and ends up sailing toward Bermuda; Fern's response is to road trip with a giant searching for his estranged son. The peripatetic pair's three young children are unwittingly abandoned to face a mythic backyard adventure.