WRITER-director Rebecca Miller adapts her own book, which chronicles the journey of self-discovery of 40-something Pippa (Robin Wright Penn), who moves to a quiet and leafy retirement community with her much older husband, publisher Herb (Alan Arkin), who has suffered three heart attacks.
At first, Pippa seems untroubled by the move from bustling New York to tranquil Connecticut, but emotional turmoil bubbles beneath the surface.
The wife discovers that she is sleepwalking, and in a series of overlapping flashbacks she remembers her formative years, raging against her drug addict mother (Maria Bello), when the teenage Pippa (Blake Lively) learned to survive by her wits.
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By facing the ghosts of her troubled past, Pippa is drawn to handsome drifter Chris (Keanu Reeves), the son of a nosy neighbour, who plans to leave the retirement community as soon as he can.
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