At the center of this engrossing melodrama is a Golden Globe-nominated turn by Debra Winger, who plays a sheltered, slow-witted woman living with her widowed Aunt Frances (Barbara Hershey) while working at a dry cleaners. Into their world come a variety of characters -- including an alcoholic handyman, the wife of the politico Frances is having an affair with and a petty thief -- whose lives intersect in unexpected (and sometimes violent) ways.