Nellie, the straight-laced daughter of the landlord, takes over the management of the Brown Cow Pub when her father gets sick. Things are going fine until a property developer with plans for the pub comes by to buy the pub.

The landlord Jed, meets another women on the anniversary of his wife's death, but she is Gladys the twice widowed women Nellie knows. Should Nellie get in the middle?

Nellie contacts a spiritualist in an attempt to contact her late mother in the after life. She has an important question, and she needs an answer.