A tender and romantic comedy -- wildly theatrical and intensely poetic -- about fighting the dirt in your life, finding your true love at any age, and the quest for the perfect joke. Housecleaning and joke telling take on new levels of meaning in the lives of four extraordinary women. Matilde, the maid who hates to clean, is on a mission to find the perfect joke that leads to the transformation of the household and the conclusion that the best things in life are infinitely worth waiting for,