Someone very important is coming to visit! Boo needs her family to be on their very best behavior. The more she readies the house, however, the more everything around her seems to fall apart. The children are off being horrible, crude, disgusting teenagers; and Buddy, her husband, has sheltered away in his office to work on a novel she suspects is simply filthy--and he won’t stop whispering "Kitty Kitty Kitty" under his breath. Boo’s frantic readiness whirls her into such a fuss that at times she simply freezes in place, unable to comprehend the grotesque family she’s grown around her.