Young Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler live in a house on Revolutionary Road in suburban America. The husband, Frank, is a routine office worker, and the wife, April, stays at home to raise a couple of children and work as an amateur actress. Sensing that they are entering middle age, the two are tired of the empty, boring atmosphere around them and argue endlessly. Able proposes to leave everything behind and go to Paris in search of new passions and dreams. The gears of fate begin to turn... The boss says to Frank: You are a promising young man, let's give you a promotion. And his wife, April, is pregnant again.