The Barnes family are in trouble. Until recently they ran the biggest business in town: now they're teetering on the brink of bankruptcy - and that's just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda's marriage is hanging by a thread: straight-A student Cass is careering off the rails. PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully. Meanwhile, the past is rising up to meet them, but everyone's too wrapped up in the present to notice disaster looming.