The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways. But as the family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they find themselves growing more alert to the hurt, humor, warmth, and burdens of others—to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together.
as Ricky Ryrie
as John Ryrie
as Biscuit Ryrie
as Paul Ryrie
as Jessica Safransky
as Gordie Joiner
as Madeleine Berkowitz
as Salesperson
as Ms. Nuñez
as Radiologist
as Young Paul Ryrie
