Widowed Hope Long travels to Santa Barbara, California to visit her dying grandmother, Fanny Listener, who listens to troubled talkers in a small cottage behind her house. Someday Hope will become the listener, but today Fanny wants to tell Hope something before she dies. Fanny tells Hope that she is one of three triplets and further, that Fannie's husband had sold a male baby to a wealthy family and that little boy sang and danced his way into the hearts of millions of Americans. She did
