An American version of Miss Marple, Gracie Evans is tired of retirement and bored with living in the Moser Mansion rest home for women. She wishes she could go back to her farm for a little while. She gets her wish, but she soon decides she should be careful what she wishes for. She finds a missing neighbor's clothes on her pond bank and that's just the beginning of bad luck for Gracie when she goes to Three Oaks to house sit.