The Landlady of Maple Avenue

When a multi-family Victorian home is purchased in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1951 for the elderly and illiterate Marceline Gillis to live in while caring for her alcoholic husband and disabled veteran son, Marceline assumes she will be the property's new owner and rightful landlady. Expecting to fulfill her lifelong dream of homeownership while ending her days of abject poverty, she soon discovers that her two sons and their wives have other plans for the property's management, feeling she is ill-equipped for the job. This set off a small war within the tight-knit Catholic family from Nova Scotia, Canada, where Marceline has always been the undisputed matriarch of the entire Gillis clan--up till now.