
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney’s is cold, Pete’s is clingy. Sidney’s mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete’s mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. « After Tomorrow » is Pete and Sidney’s favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?