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, Elner’s
nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in
bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner’s neighbor Verbena
rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend,
Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch–and
the entire town is thrown for a loop and left
wondering, “What is life all about, anyway?” Except for
Tot Whooten, who owns Tot’s 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.