Three friends from Los Angles named Melanie (Valerie Bertinelli), Joy (Jane Leeves) and Victoria (Wendie Malick) board a plane to Paris only to make an emergency landing in Cleveland, Ohio. They decide to stay in the city for a few weeks and rent a cottage, but along with the cottage comes a caretaker named Elka (Betty White) who is a sassy older woman that dislikes Joy.