Doug Riley and his wife Lois have been living a half life since their daughter Emily was killed eight years ago. Doug has coped by having an affair with Vivian, a waitress.
Lois has struggled, harbouring a secret and devastating sense of guilt for her daughters death.
She has withdrawn into herself and hides away from the outside world, relying on hairdressers who make house calls, her sister, Harriet, and the local pastor.
When Vivian dies, Doug is lost. On a business trip to Baton Rouge he finds himself at a crossroads. And in a strip club. A 16 year old lap dancer Mallory offers him extras in a private room.
He turns her down but goes home to her run down apartment and makes his own proposition. He offers to pay her $100 a day if he can stay for a while, get his head together.
No sex. No strings. Mallory isnt used to getting money for nothing, but whatever.
Doug rings Lois and tells her he isnt coming home. After struggling with life alone Lois goes to gfind her husband and is horrified to find him living with Mallory.
However she is taken with Mallorys similarities to Emily and Lois moves in, the three of them becoming an unusual family unit.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo.