缅因州坎登小镇上的医生梅特·弗勒(汤姆·韦金森饰)有个幸福美满的家庭。妻子露丝(茜茜·史贝瑟饰)是个中学音乐教师。在大学里学建筑设计却继承了祖父和父亲捕捞龙虾爱好的独子弗兰克(尼克·史达饰)更使他骄傲。 但和所有幸福美满的家庭一样,梅特夫妇很快有了自己的烦恼:暑假他们的儿子弗兰克回到家乡打工并爱上了一名单身母亲娜塔莉(玛丽莎·托梅饰)。对儿子寄予厚望的露丝不胜烦恼。她不赞成儿子和蓝领家庭出身、拖着两个孩子的女人来往。 Maitre Fleur (Tom Wickinson), a doctor in the town of Camden, Maine, has a happy family. His wife Ruth (Sissy Spacer) is a high school music teacher. It is even more proud to learn that architectural design at university has inherited his grandfather and his father’s love of the lobster Frank (Nick Stahl). But like all happy families, the Mett couples quickly got in trouble with themselves: their son, Frank, returned home during the summer to work and fell in love with a single mother Natalie (Marisa Tome). Ruth, who has great expectations for his son, is upset. She disagreed with her son and family with blue-collar family and women with two children.