The Family Flea combines comedy and pathos
to delve into the contradictions of impaired relationships, highly-charged
issues of status and self-worth, and the burden of an American family’s
unshakeable legacy.
The family – matriarch Maxine, her husband Conrad and her daughters Charlotte and Stacy – are all involved in the business, a home-based flea market in which the only item of value is the one thing that’s not for sale.
Jessie, Maxine's next door neighbor, best friend and Monopoly partner, plays an integral part in the unfolding conflict faced by Maxine and her family. These two women each carry closely held secrets that could destroy their life-long friendship.
Maxine has a growing need to pass the business on to one of her daughters, along with “the stone,” a mysterious heirloom that she proudly and protectively wears around her neck.
Inevitable change and provocation arrive in the form of younger daughter Stacy's new boyfriend from Russia.
With their fates cast between the stone and the Flea, Maxine and her family meet their greatest challenge. The Monopoly board topples and the stone fulfills its destiny.