Dean Pereira and Cindy Heller Pereira are a young working-class married couple with a young daughter, Frankie. Dean currently works as a painter and Cindy is a nurse at a medical clinic.

Blue Valentine» is an intimate, shattering portrait of a disintegrating marriage. On the far side of an once-passionate romance, Cindy (Michelle Williams) and Dean (Ryan Gosling) are married with a ...