A possessive and bitter widow tries to gather her three sons back home on the anniversary of her husband's death. One son and his wife are trying to move to Canada, another is a transvestite who steals women's underwear off the neighbor's clotheslines, and the last one has made the mistake of bringing his young girlfriend home for the occasion. As the evening wears on, the tension mounts and the mother is driven to desperate measures to hold the family together.