A 1912 song-and-dance man quarrels with one partner but finds another. His new partner falls head over heels for the king of hoofers.

Ann Eliza takes very good care of the farmyard animals so, despite the grumbling of Graybeard the Goat and the bragging of White Rabbit, they work together to make a very nice Easter for her.

Revolutionary road: A bright Connecticut couple, Frank and April Wheeler, living on the assumption that greatness is just around the corner, mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves. The Easter parade: Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later...

Follows forty years in the lives of two sisters, victims of divorced, neglectful parents, as they develop into different kinds of women.