Edith is a grandmother, her husband already passed, and she lives with her good-for-nothing son, LT. He creeps even her out, driving past the local school to watch young girls in short shorts walking. That night her grandson Wallace, LT's son, comes to visit for the first time in a five years, bringing his fiancee Aubrey. Aubrey is a pretty girl, if dressed a little goth, but Edith worries about the way LT looks at her.

Edith takes a liking to Aubrey, who is sweet with lovely manners, and warns her away from LT. Wallace grabs Aubrey and leaves in a hurry after getting in an argument with his father, and Edith warns LT away from Aubrey as well. The next day LT says that Wallace had gotten him a job at a garage, and that he was going to work and taking the car. A couple weeks later he stopped bringing home money and Edith realized he wasn't going to work, if he'd ever been going at all.

One night Edith hears angry voices outside, Wallace and LT. Three days later, during which LT doesn't leave the house, two police officers come by. Edith and LT both lie to them and say they've never heard of an Aubrey Sykes, and refuse to let them search the premises. The next day Edith rises early and finds Aubrey's grave in the woods with her dog. She is sure that it was LT's doing, not Wallace, though he'd clearly been involved. She goes back home and cooks LT a massive breakfast, then goes upstairs and changes into her nice clothes. She heads out to where LT is sitting on the porch and shoots him in the head with her husband's old gun.

After rolling his body down a hill to the south side of the property, Edith calls her grandson Wallace and tells him to come to her house. When he gets there, she'll shoot him so that his body rolls to the north side of the property. Then she'll go upstairs and put her dog down, then finally she'll kill herself. The cops would find them eventually, but the world would be rid of Edith and her family.