Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a mental patient at the university, and she is there visiting her son, who is a student, after discovering her husband's infidelity.
Lloyd Bridges
as John Sparrow
Shirley Jones
as Katherine Johnson
Lynn Carlin
as Jennifer Sparrow
Carrie Snodgress
as Janet
Cloris Leachman
as Ginny
Robert Lipton
as Philip
Richard Eastham
as Paul Johnson
Stefan Arngrim
as Jerry Johnson
Nydia Westman
as Mae
Woodrow Parfrey
as Dr. Hyatt
Edward R. Leadbetter
as Mac, the Cab Driver
Walter Boughton
as Walter, the Desk Clerk
