A heartbreakingly beautiful love story full of secrets and astonishments set in the changing world of 1950s San Francisco.
It is 1953, and America is still haunted by the war. Pearlie and Holland live quietly with their son in San Francisco, with a barkless dog in a vine-covered house. Apart from Holland's elderly aunts, the family have no regular visitors. That is until one day, a neat and elegantly dressed gentleman named Buzz appears at their door.
The Story of a Marriage portrays three people trapped by the restrictions of their era, and reveals how we can never truly know the ones we love.