While visiting their grandmother, two cousins enjoy playing in their own little house in the woods, but they do not realize what consequences their exclusion of a poor local girl will bring.
A high school freshman with a crush on her English teacher, Katie enjoys her job doing housework in his house until a murder in his family has Katie fearing for her own life.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Pudmuddle move into their backwards house where they live happily until they discover certain deficiencies--there is no basement and the roof has blown off.