In 1945 in New Orleans, a fourteen-year-old boy's sister stops secretly seeing a lieutenant and decides to finally marry one of the suitors that her mother has approved for her.

After seeing a familiar name in the phone book, a woman decides to visit the house where she studied abroad years before.

A crotchety old woman gets off at the wrong bus stop and, to her dismay, is stuck in a town she's never heard of with strangers whose behavior is bizarre and disconcerting.

A woman born into old money rejects the norms of her community to dedicate her life to saving wounded animals. When she finds herself diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, who among her stuffy neighbors will care for her animals after her death?