Long Day's Journey Into Night is the story of the Tyrone family spending a day together at their seaside cottage in Connecticut. The four-act play deals with family, addiction, and failure. The three Tyron men are alcoholics while Mary, matriarch of the family, is struggling with a morphine addiction. The play covers the family's battles not just with their own addictions but with each other's as their family ties are tested again and again by lies and old hurts.