Edie St. Claire is smack in the middle of what's going on in Conwell: her in-laws' general store, the Do-Si-Do Bar, and this small town's biggest scandal in years. Her father is a crusty so-and-so who runs the town dump. Her wisecracking aunt is as fiery as her dyed red hair.Both live next to Edie and her young daughter on this dead-end dirt road. Edie is a woman on the go, pretty and direct, but she holds onto an old sadness: the death of her husband in Vietnam.She tries to ease her grief with his married brother, Walker.But when the affair comes to a tragic end, Edie does her best to survive the blame with the help of her rough-sawn family and a badly scarred man who has arrived for his fresh start.