An oddball household on a Kansas farm are trapped of their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He's at the moment courting a youngsters's TV evangelist. Additionally residing on the farm is his layabout daughter and her precocious 8 yr previous daughter, his would-be artist son, the son's fiancée, and the black maid. Additionally thrown into the combo is the daughter's ex-husband, a ne-er-do-well who's in search of to get again in his ex-wife's good graces.