Really, is there anything wrong with taking clothes off someone who is never going to wear them? When you're broke and living in the depression, you take chances and take what you can with no one getting hurt. Mame Fernbrower is a good woman, but the depression has her at the final straw. Yes, she can sew and take care of her family's needs, mending shirts, turning cuffs, making clothes last just a little longer. Putting cardboard in shoes to go a little farther, adding water or a turnip to make a stew go a little further. Spices are the key, and she knows it. Her garden is small and puny, but she tends it and takes what she can out of it. Then, it happens, her whole world turns around with just one funeral. Her sister-in-law Greta has just past away, they were never what you would call friends. Greta looked down on Mame and considered her beneath her and her friends. But Mame's husband Lucas loved her and didn't give a damn if she was from the wrong side of the tracks or so Greta used to say. So, came the day of Greta's funeral, Mame's world changed, forever.
