该剧描述一个功能失调的家庭如何确保自身的稳定。花儿一家人的性格全都古里古怪,导致他们难以团结一致。他们住在一间拥挤、肮脏、凌乱、破败、总是吱吱呀呀乱响的老房子里。毛瑞斯(Julian Barratt饰)是个儿童书作家,他的妻子狄波拉(Olivia Colman饰)是个 音乐教师。他们有一对双胞胎子女艾米(Sophia Di Martino饰)和唐纳德(Daniel Rigby饰),但他们爱上了同一个女孩阿比格(Georgina Campbell饰),天天争风吃醋。毛瑞斯的母亲海蒂(Leila Hoffman饰)也住在他们家中。狄波拉和毛瑞斯的婚姻很久以前就破裂了,但他们仍然没有离婚。毛瑞斯深受心魔和秘密折磨,狄波拉怀疑丈夫与给他的儿童书绘制插画的日本人瞬(Will Sharpe饰)在搅基。The eccentric Flowers family are struggling to hold themselves together. Maurice Flowers (Barratt) is the author of the twisted children's books "The Grubbs", he and his wife Deborah (Colman) are barely together but yet to divorce. As Maurice fights inner demons and dark secrets, she begins to suspect that Maurice is having a homosexual affair with his Japanese illustrator Shun (Sharpe). The couple live in a creepy, creaky, crumbling old house with Maurice's dotty mother Hattie (Hoffman) and their maladjusted twin 25-year-old children Amy (Di Martino) and Donald (Rigby). Both twins are competing for the affections of their attractive neighbour Abigail (Campbell). The Flowers family and their often self-inflicted crises are surrounded by odd neighbours - agents of further headaches and heartache.