It’s the 1920s and gender roles are set in stone—can it be anything but “unhappily ever after” for the hapless Knapps?

Evangeline is quite possibly the best home-maker in town, but keeping her home and family in immaculate condition is killing her—and them. Her husband, Lester, is suffering too—a poet and a dreamer trapped in the body of a bookkeeper, he’s professionally inadequate and personally disengaged. Meanwhile, the Knapp children are chafing under the weight of their mother’s too-great expectations.

But then, life (quite literally) knocks a man to the ground, and spouses (figuratively) swap shoes—can the Knapps have a second chance at domestic bliss when they throw social conventions out with the dishwater?