Based on the best-selling novel by Sue Miller, an American family is deeply bonded by the stranger in their midst - a beautiful autistic child. When photographer Nina Eberline comes home to visit her now-divorced parents she looks through a collection of pictures taken by her father and herself, and reflects on how her autistic brother's existence shaped the fortunes of her family. "Family Pictures" paints a portrait of the lives of the Eberline family and their struggles to survive a flood tide of upheaval and heartbreak, love and betrayal, passion and pain in a endearing story that is sure to touch your heart.