Despite critical acclaim for her role in Housewife, Snodgress turned her back on Hollywood in 1971 to live with rock singer Neil Young on their Northern Californiaranch and care for their son, Zeke, who was born with cerebral palsy.
Tina Balser is in a loveless marriage with Jonathan, an insufferable, anachronistically (in 1970) Yupped-out, social-climbing lawyer in New York City. He treats her like a trophy, refuses to back her in disputes over the raising of their children and belittles her in public. Searching for relief, she has an affair with writer George Prager, but this only drives her deeper into despair. She then tries group therapy, but this also proves fruitless when she finds her male psychiatrist, Dr. Linstrom, is no more understanding than the other men in her life.
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