Grandma trots about in tennis sneakers and a red baseball cap. Papa is a fat slob in unbuttoned pajamas, who has spent a lifetime dabbling in experimental theater. Mama reminisces over an early tussle for bohemian freedom in which she and Papa made love in the front row of the orchestra during a performance of Tannhäuser. Currently, she sleeps with a grinning Neanderthal manservant named Eddie, while Papa affects not to notice.
When Son Arthur returns to this zany household, he is appalled, heartsick and intellectually in anguish. Eager to exercise the sacred right of the young to rebel, Arthur (David Margulies)...