Conventional life has never been easy for Hannah Lavender. Her sister Ronnie is an activist in a commune, and her mother Babs has suddenly left her housekeeping job with geothermal engineer Steve Talbot, eloping to America with a Texan cowboy. Hannah is drafted in to take her mother's place as housekeeper, but it doesn't take Ronnie long to superglue herself to a protester outside Steve's front gate. When Babs joins the protest, Hannah is forced to flee the job and the man she loves.