A richly detailed, darkly hilarious portrait of a family held together and torn apart by its scheming matriarch.

Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children.

To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood.

Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism.

This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind.