Unlucky in work, love, and life, the Andreas sisters return to their childhood home. Each has a secret she's unwilling to share - each has come home to lick her own wounds. The Andreas family is an eccentric one. Books are their passion, TV something other families watched. Their father, a renowned professor of Shakespeare who communicates almost exclusively in verse, named all three girls for great Shakespearean women - Rose (Rosalind), Bean (Bianca), and Cordy (Cordelia); as a result, the sisters find that they have a lot to live up to. With this burden, the Andreas sisters have a difficult time communicating with their parents and their lovers, but especially with one another.