Word-playful businesses pepper the company town occupied by the Flynns, who are a family in crises. Bud Flynn, long after giving up on a life in punk rock, pays his three daughters’ way through Catholic school by managing accounts and systems at “Alabaster Harbor™,” the “primary port for the entire western coastline,” and he’s ready to “drive the minivan into the sea.” His wife, Catherine, insists that they open their ossifying marriage, hence Bud’s maudlin urge. And her recent penchant for hanging nude self-portraits, taken at their divorced neighbor’s encouragement, isn’t helping matters.