In This Our Life

In Richmond, Virginia, Asa and Lavinia (née Fitzroy) Timberlake gave their two daughters male names: Roy and Stanley. The movie opens with the young women as adults. Asa Timberlake has recently lost his piece of a tobacco company to his former partner William Fitzroy, his wife's brother. Roy, a successful interior decorator, is married to Dr. Peter Kingsmill. Stanley is engaged to progressive attorney Craig Fleming. One evening, during the week before her wedding, Stanley runs off with Roy's husband, Peter. Craig becomes depressed, but Roy decides to keep a positive, although somewhat hardened, attitude. After Roy divorces Peter, he and Stanley marry and move to Baltimore.