Revolutionary Road plot
"How do you break free without breaking apart?"
In the late 1950s, America is thriving. Frank and April Wheeler are a young, attractive and promising couple. They have two lovely children and live in an affluent suburb somewhere in Connecticut. But they are not happy, or even satisfied. Frank has a boring office job, April mourns a crippled career as an actress. Surely they were destined to be different, better? In a desperate attempt to escape their sluggish civilian life, they decide to go to France. Their special gifts will be able to develop in Europe, far from the superficial consumer society that America is in their eyes. Their relationship, however, gets bogged down in endless bickering and jealousy, and a drama seems inevitable.