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, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily dramas of his life only serve to illuminate his prejudice, self-doubts and dreary existence - his Christmas gifts to the family are stock certificates, which he immediately takes back to manage on their behalf.