They travel from one vacation spot to another with their hothouse-plant son, Tony (Eddie Redmayne), who grows up intelligent, gay, and very much obsessed with his miserably unhappy mother.
The underlying idea is that public and private institutions have failed us miserably since the financial crisis or, at best, have been very slow to change.
It was (and still is) a beautiful, very rustic place where kids spend the summer living in tents, and where I felt miserably isolated from the world I knew.