Synopsis: This is the story of Gene, a widower, with an elderly mother whom he loves and an eighty-year-old father, whom he has never loved, hard as he tried. The father has been residing in a small town in Westchester County, self-made and highly respected. Beneath these trappings, however, he is a mean, unloving and ungenerous man, who has driven his daughter away because of her marriage to a Jewish man and has alienated his son through his possessiveness, his selfish ways and endless reminiscences. Suddenly the mother dies, and Gene is faced with the responsibility of the father on his hands just at a time when he wants to remarry and move to California. The series of dramatic confrontations when Alice, the sister, who has defied her father, pleads with him not to take on the burden of the old man and ruin his life; when the penurious father and son pick out a coffin for the mother; and the final episode in which Gene tries once again to feel affection for his father.
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