When Henrietta Ellis's companion dies she moves in with her nephew Dino and his girlfriend Elsie. Once Henrietta has settled in at the cottage she starts, in the nicest possible way, to organize the lives of those around her - the old Admiral, the meek new Vicar, Elsie's sister Delia and of course, Dino himself - enabling them all to realize their full potential, and fulfilling her own at the same time.