Anne Harding runs her small fruit and vegetable farm and takes care of her teenage daughter Jamie and her arthritis-stricken mother Molly. Then one day John Smith, her Aunt Sally’s butler, shows up on her doorstep. Sally, a widow, wants to lend John and his services to her sister Molly for six weeks. John discreetly unravels the family’s little secrets and unobtrusively attempts to help everyone.