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Joy

Joy is a brilliant therapist, wife to Alan and mother to three kids.

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Toni Collette

Warm, witty and empathetic, Joy has always been the go-to sounding board for all her friends’ and family’s problems but now she must face up to a major problem in her own personal life.

Confronting her flat-lining sex life with Alan, Joy brings her usual uncompromising and analytical mind to the situation, becoming the driving force behind an adventure in polyamory.

Joy thinks she’s found the perfect method of balancing a loving marriage and sexual fulfilment, but matters won’t always run smoothly and Joy will find herself wrestling with massive questions.

Can you really love more than one person, how do you ever explain something like this to your kids and, amidst all the excitement, juggling and upheaval, why is she still haunted by the memory of one particular client...

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