Una ricca famiglia del sud degli Stati Uniti, entra in crisi di fronte alla morte annunciata del padre-padrone. I figli riveleranno da una parte avidità e dall'altra fragilità di carattere.
La gatta sul tetto che scotta
dying and death, depression, individual, suicide, jealousy, husband wife relationship, southern usa, mississippi river, plantation, patriarch, based on play or musical, inheritance, sibling rivalry, brother against brother, cynical, alcoholic, dying father, angry, family conflicts, father son conflict, southern gothic, anxious, daughter–in–law father–in–law relationship, star athlete, cotton plantation, mississippi, authoritarian, condescending