Fay Kirkwood is a grumpy offshoot of an old Boston family who has lived most of her life on a north country farm, raising pigs and fixing lawnmowers. She has just dropped dead and the unorthodox disposal of her body launches a pinball succession of events which, much to her dismay, she cannot escape witnessing. The story is a voice-driven comedy about death, New England culture, small-town entanglements, and a "green burial" decades before its time.