Mimi, a recently unemployed 60 year old widow and her daughter, Felicia, live a humdrum life. While Felicia struggles to earn a modest living, Mimi spends her days living vicariously through the characters on her favorite soap opera: "As the Dial Turns." Their lives take a colorful turn, however, when a very pregnant Victoria Cain, Mimi's favorite character, shows up at their front door straight from Port Henry with car troubles in the midst of a blizzard. But the troubles are just beginning for the melodramatic Victoria, who has a track record of plot twists that would put Susan Lucci to shame.