A moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer traveling through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions.

Miles Adler-Hart starts eavesdropping to find out what his mother is planning for his life. When he learns instead that his parents are separating, his investigation deepens and he enlists his best friend, Hector, to help. Their amateur detective work starts innocently but quickly takes them to the far reaches of adult privacy as they acquire knowledge that will affect the family's well-being, prosperity and sanity. Burdened with this powerful information,...

Adele is a flashy, flirtatious dreamer. Her daughter Ann is a quiet, no-nonsense realist. On the surface, they're like oil and water, but deep down, they are two of a kind.