On the day of a soldier’s memorial, Emily’s efforts to keep her family’s hope alive reach a breaking point and she descends into a personal inferno.
Emily tries to celebrate her father’s birthday with an old-fashioned family singalong, but it devolves into another battle in the Dickinsons’ own civil war.
To distract himself from the pain of life, Austin throws a tea party for his old college friends—but the day is disrupted by a major political event.