Nancy Shevlin has what looks like the perfect life. Married to a cardiologist, she lives in a showpiece mid-century-modern home. No domestic detail is too small to escape her attention. A doting mother, she voraciously reads parenting books, desperate to help her nine-year-old son Jimmy, who absolutely hates school and leaves a trail of chaos wherever he goes. None of the books help, however. Calls home from teachers, fights with other children, and constant arguing about video games wear Nancy ...