Desperate for a job, Marcie Parker is thrilled when she's hired as director of a halfway house for recovering alcoholic women. Then she meets the housemother, Deborah, an angry dwarf who dislikes Marcie on the spot and sets out to make her life miserable. Nevertheless, Marcie fills the house with a mixed bag of women: Pearl, the uneducated country woman with a world of common sense; Veronica, a flamboyant former actress always ready with a wisecrack; Missy, whose evangelical father disowned her because she left her husband, Neither man knows she's gay; Phyllis, the homemaker who drowned her empty nest with whiskey; Cassie, a homeless, high school dropout who suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder; Clara, a one-armed woman who started keeping company with the bootlegger when she lost her job; Georgia Lu, a coarse giant of a woman who has been in too many drunken car wrecks. Religion in one form or another has affected most of these women. Enter Pastor Jacob Horner who, much to Marcie's dismay, holds a "spiritual enrichment" program once a week. As a welcomed distraction, an unexpected romance blooms between Marcie and her boss's assistant, Roger McCandliss. Never, not for one moment, does Marcie fear for her life. But a psychotic killer lurks among them. It takes finally getting on Deborah, the housemother's good side to find out who.