If I know why he is the way he is then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am, says Alex Tuchman, strong-headed lawyer, loving mother, and daughter of Victor Tuchmana power-hungry real estate developer and, by all accounts, a bad man. Now that Victor is on his deathbed, Alex feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who he is and what he did over the course of his life and career. She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra.
As Barbra fends of Alexs unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous life with Victor. Meanwhile Gary, Alexs brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. And Garys wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, buying up all the lipstick in drug stores around New Orleans and bursting into crying fits. Dysfunction is at its peak. As each family member grapples with Victors history, they must figure out a way to move forwardwith one another, for themselves, and for the sake of their children.
All This Could Be Yoursis a timely, piercing exploration of what it means to be caught in the web of a toxic man who abused his power; it shows how those webs can tangle a family for generations and what it takes tomaybe, hopefullybreak free.