A family comedy that takes place in four scenes, each ten years apart, set at various holidays. Starting in 1980, the newly launched kids - a priest, an aspiring actress and a former star football player - all return home, when we learn of their plans and dreams as they embark on their adult lives. The empty nest parents contend with their own changes too, as old family rituals and dubious recipes are trotted out and ancient tensions flare up. Over the course of thirty years' celebrations we see how, despite what we may have in mind, we often arrive at unexpected destinations.