Simon F. Latch is a disillusioned lawyer, who set up his practice on the main street of a small town but never amounted to much. He’s desperate to escape his deteriorating personal and professional life but can’t see a way out.
A perfect windfall materializes when 85-year-old widow Eleanor “Netty” Barnett walks into his office. Netty claims to have a massive, hidden fortune and needs a will drafted. Simon immediately sees this as his potential solution to all his problems. All he has to do is get poor Netty to trust him.
