Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elnerโs nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elnerโs neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditchโand the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, โWhat is life all about, anyway?โ Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Totโs Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security.