Set in 1947, Alice Hansen is the Martha Stewart before there was a Martha Stewart. She cooks, she throws dinner parties, she is a loving wife and mother. In her magazine, she entertains the masses with all her recipes and tips and tricks, but the real trick is Alice is none of these things; she’s a single woman living in Brooklyn, pretending to be the perfect housewife. When her agent arranges for a World War II vet to stay at her Vermont manor for two weeks for publicity’s sake, Alice panics knowing she may just be exposed as a fraud if her sister and brother-in-law don’t play along.