At the age of eighty-three, Jack Bordelon slips away from his life on Earth. He leaves behind a suspicious will which states that he has left all of his estate, including thirty acres of land inherited from his first wife, Maggie's, family, to his new wife, Lilly Mae.This does not go over well with his and Maggie's eight grown children or with Maggie's five siblings. The Bordelon children and their aunts and uncles team up to get back what they feel is rightfully theirs.In the process, bedlam ensues.