After the depression, a young girl is born into an immigrant family. At age five, she is ironing and doing laundry while both her parents are out working. As she grows, she cannot make friends or venture into the world, her place is in the home, to iron, do laundry and to cook and clean. She wants to go to college cannot because education is reserved for her baby brother. Her wedding reception is cancelled because her uncle dies of a stroke. Later...