Abandoned in Wysteria

It is 1990 and Wysteria Florida America's oldest and least credible spiritualist community is celebrating its 100th birthday. Coordinating an anniversary festival is local resident and <i>US Arts & Crafts</i> magazine publisher Sheila Renault. Assisting Sheila is her cousin Van <i>US A&C's</i> incompetent receptionist and Wysteria's reigning Virgin Queen; Erich Weimar ex-con divorced father and town hunk; his nephew Seth a troubled 30-year-old in the body of an even more troubled adolescent; Justin Cook whose parents bought the Wysteria Hotel so he could have some other place to lie around; Marilyn Smart the community's most talented and most modest psychic; and Lenore LaShomb its least talented and least modest. Together Sheila and her committee organize an event that makes Wysteria a household name--for very different reasons than they expect--and makes the upper-class residents of neighboring Talbot consider nuking it from orbit.