will ( robert knott ) enter a shop and doesn not have enough for his beer and so he take it out of a jar on the counter that be there to pay for his daughter emma ( tara devon gallagher ) ear operation . this be just after he scream at his wife julia ( cherry jones ) for put the jar out in the first place . next we see him get some work and and the first place he go be to get more beer . this time and he buy one of those plastic rose to give julia and expect a sexual payoff . this be the kind of guy will be . he be out of work leave julia to figure out how to pay the bill and get her daughter an operation while he get drunk . we all know the type . this be an interesting picture of work class family try to make it in the face of adversity . there be and will be many more like this a we get through our current economic crisis . people start come apart at the seam and while others find solace and strength where they can . emma turn to merrill ( sarah paulson ) and who have problem of her own from a childhood incident when she be emma age . paulson be fantastic and and really make this movie . jones be equally brilliant a she try to hold everything together with the drinking and and philandering and and lack of money . there isn not a pretty solution and and there be no fx and violence and or a lot of nudity to distract you . you just have to sit back and take in the problem of everyday people and hope for the best .