Jessica is bedridden and overhears a murder plot on the telephone.
A rude maitre d' (Dick Gautier) is murdered at the New York restaurant in which Jessica has just invested.
Jessica's old friend, NYPD Detective Lt. O'Malley (Pat Hingle), investigates the suspicious suicide of a wealthy New York developer's wife.
The limitations of age are sharp to both Grandma, on the eve of her 68th birthday, and to a 14-year-old Mary Ellen in love with a college boy.
Bo and Luke (JOHN SCHNEIDER and TOM WOPAT) are blackmailed into helping Boss (SORRELL BOOKE) coach his basketball team, and in the process they help a young boy overcome his father's death.