The newly-widowed Gilly Bell has many problems but she can always rely on her neighbour Vince to add to them.

Vince's ornamental pond project reaches "stage two". Gilly needs Vince's help to extinguish an old flame.

Gilly is understandably suspicious when Vince offers her money to put up his mother, Olive. But when Gilly meets her, she discovers that she is not all that she seems.