Sue Pecos, a resident of Shuffleboard Manor retirement home, is ready to be reunited with her husband Bill who has been gone seventeen years. Her deceased former roommate, Sylvia Waif, appears and offers to be as Beatrice was to Dante, her guide through a shadowy purgatory named Flora Land. Sylvia recruits residents of Shuffleboard to serve as characters Sue encounters through ring after ring of this mysterious land that mirrors Florida. She is being made worthy to spend eternity in paradise though all she really wants is to be with Bill again.