Cette série explore la vie d'un couple américain typique de la classe moyenne au milieu du XXe siècle. Avec une observation fine et une ironie subtile, les romans examinent l'existence superficielle de leurs vies apparemment parfaites, révélant le vide caché derrière les conventions sociales et le confort matériel. À travers d'intimes portraits de personnages, la série interroge la nature du mariage, du bonheur et la quête de sens dans le cadre du rêve américain.
Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time with shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners.
Walter Bridge is an ambitious lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he senses that his family needs something, even when what they need is more of him and less of his money. Affluence, material assets, and comforts create a cocoon of community respectability that cloaks the void within - not the skeleton in the closet but a black hole swallowing the whole household.