The Long Christmas Dinner

About the show

Across successive Christmas dinners over 90 years, the Bayard family ages, births and deaths alter the household. Roderick and Lucia’s children grow up, marry, and have children; one son dies in the Korean War, another leaves the family firm, and generations die in the old house. At the end, the dying Ermengarde discovers a letter and photographs showing that Lucia II and Roderick II have built a new Bayard house and named their children Roderick III and Lucia III.