THINGS ARE A BIT OFF at the Anderson home. Young Chester has a fixation with the toilet and a propensity towards kleptomania. His sister Eliza, a closet-voyeur, likes her paint-by-numbers a little too much. Brother Godfrey, buoyed by an awe for the horticultural, can’t tell the difference between the things he loves and the things he wants to eat. And matriarch Maud devotes her days to filling the stomachs of her little ones.

Until today. As Maud prepares the dinner her children will never forget, Chester, Eliza and poor Godfrey employ their queer preoccupations for a communal objective—their undeniable, unprecedented and completely heroic absence from dinner.