<P>For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart. Edie is obsessed with food -- and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live.</P><P></P><P>When Richard abandons his wife, it's up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going family man, just wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle, a whippet-thin perfectionist, is intent on saving her mother-in-law's life.</P><P></P><P>Through it all, they wonder: do Edie's devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too?</P>