Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Elenco: Gena Rowlands , Mia Farrow , Ian Holm , Blythe Danner , Gene Hackman , Betty Buckley , Martha Plimpton , John Houseman , Sandy Dennis , David Ogden Stiers , Philip Bosco , Harris Yulin , Frances Conroy , Fred Melamed , Kenneth Welsh , Bruce Jay Friedman , Bernie Leighton , Jack Gelber , Paul Sills , John Schenck , Noel Behn , Gretchen Dahm , Janet Frank , Dana Ivey , Alice Spivak , Mary Laslo , Carol Schultz , Dax Munna , Heather C. Sullivan , Margaret Marx , Jennifer Lynn McComb , Caroline McGee , Stephen Mailer , Jacques Levy , Dee Dee Friedman , Josh Hamilton , Kathryn Grody , John Towey , Michael Kirby , Fred Sweda , Jill Whitaker .