"A Little Peace and Quiet" is the second segment of the first episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
Penny, a housewife and mother of four, is awakened by her excessively loud clock radio. She gets up and cooks breakfast. Her children fight and interrupt her, her husband complains about the mess in the closet, the phone rings but she cannot hear the other person over the noise, and the washing mach...
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"A Little Peace and Quiet" is the second segment of the first episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
Penny, a housewife and mother of four, is awakened by her excessively loud clock radio. She gets up and cooks breakfast. Her children fight and interrupt her, her husband complains about the mess in the closet, the phone rings but she cannot hear the other person over the noise, and the washing machine acts up again.
Later, Penny works in her garden, while her neighbor removes tree limbs with a chainsaw. As she digs, she discovers a wooden box containing a beautiful gold pendant in the shape of a sundial, which she takes inside and puts on.
At the grocery store, Penny is harassed by her whining children and by annoying customers. She drives home as her children fight. While she tries to cook dinner, her children begin to pester her again, and her husband comes downstairs complaining about a rip in his shirt. As the noise level becomes...
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