MARTHA Herbert McLean Evans has be abandon by her ne’ er-do-well hubby, who take all their hard cash and leave her homeless person and virtually impoverished with her two daughter and stepson. Martha leave town in hope of find a job and a topographic point to remain, she eventually find a job at a sleepy-eyed rural diner, once celebrated for its home-made root beer. But with her car interrupt downwards and the bill stack up, it look like it’s travel to be a black Christmastide for the Herbert McLean Evans household.