In the center of the plot there are four contemporary housewives who live in a quiet suburb and are desperately looking for personal happiness. Susan was left alone after her husband left her for a secretary. A former model and now an unfaithful wife, Gabrielle, married into money, and then realized that she did not need money, but a true love, and began an affair with a young gardener. Bree tries to save her marriage from falling apart and find a common language with her son, a drug addict, and to her daughter who became adult too early. Linnet put an end to a brilliant career in a large company to devote all her time to raising her children. The sudden suicide of their friend Mary Alice Young leaves all of them at a loss and makes them look for the answer to her death. Mary lost her life, but she gains the ability to penetrate into all the secrets hidden behind tightly closed doors of this prosperous American suburb.