Martha, a single mother and working nurse, struggles with her son leaving for college. When a mysterious woman invites Martha to a dinner party of other "empty nest" mothers, she soon realizes the gathering is not as innocent as it seems.

Once the self-identified big shot of the cul de sac realizes that he will have to run a campaign for President of his neighborhood's Home Owner's Association against his new Black neighbor, a man is forced to prove that he is the leader that his upper middle class community has always needed. Racial tensions, self- doubt, mental breakdowns, and debates about fern height could put everything the residents of Glacier Falls know into a whirlwind of change. But nobody is going to take this away from this man's rightful place as President-not without a fight.