Ted and Christy are a married couple in Chicago’s swankiest neighborhood but what they have is far from the American dream. The Quiet follows them in their most intimate moments, peeling away the layers of deception as we discover his extramarital affair and the strange dynamics of their marriage -- a relationship of deep hostility, silence and the bruises that Christy writes off to clumsiness. The truth finally emerges during a horrific dinner party scene when their relationship unhinges in front of Ted's high-society friends. The Quiet is a character piece in the spirit of American Beauty and Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage.