Christmas break, 1971. Samantha and Clara, two students who are staying behind for the holidays at their boarding school, must survive the night after the arrival of uninvited visitors.

Sue Parker is thrust into a desperate struggle to rescue her family's failing business, teetering on the edge of ruin due to her father's negligence. With the arrival of a charming wanderer, she sees him as their sole hope to help prevent their bar from being seized by the merciless local tycoon.

Worlds collide at an awkward 1959 New England dinner party when a progressive biracial couple arrive at a questionable psychiatrist's home. Soon they find themselves pawns in a cynical game exposing the cracks in their facades.