Millionaire Eugene Motter built the lavish estate of North Haven away from the rest of the world for his family to escape the Great Depression and wallow in their own wealthy seclusion. Disconnected from everything else, members of the family come to realize that they've locked themselves into a changeless world of their own that graces them with luxury as well as inadvertently catalyzes all of its decadence. The individual choices of each family members affects themselves and each other in the narrowed confines of North Haven as the repercussions of their choices endure throughout their lives and ultimately leads to the demise of the home.