This is a non linear presentation of several different generations, all from the dining, living room of a house across from the William Franklin (son of Benjamin Franklin) estate. Richard and Margaret (Tom Hanks and Robin Wright) are living in his father's home, which father gave to them in which to raise their daughter, Vanessa (Zsa Zsa Zemeckis). Father moved to Florida after his wife had a stroke. When she dies he moves back in with them. The move shows scenes of the same area from the dinosaur age, to the original owners of the home, John and Pauline Harter (Gwylim Lee and Michelle Dockery) never make it big. Paul likes planes, but dies in a flu epidemic. One resident (David Flynn) of the home makes the first LaZ Boy chair. After WWII, Al and Rose Young (Paul Bettany and Kelly Reilly) but the home. They raise three children, Richard, Elizabeth (Lauren McQueen) and Jimmy (Harry Marcus). As noted it is Richard who stays in the home, much to the chagrin of Margaret who always wants to move to her own home. However Margaret becomes pregnant early and Richard, who aspires to be an artist, instead sell insurance to provide for his family. This creates a wedge and they eventually divorce but remain friends. At the end of the show, Richard brings his wife to the home which he had sold some years before, and there helps her to remember the good times they had there as she has dementia. She remembers a special incident with their daughter when she lost a blue ribbon and she found it for her.
So what starts as a convoluted jumble becomes a remember your past with dementia movie like Lake House.
