A disillusioned Hollywood producer returns home to care for his elderly aunt, only to discover she and her friend have been murdering lonely drifters and burying them in their prize-winning rose garden, forcing him to choose between turning her in, or protecting the only family he has left.

SYNOPSIS:

Hollywood producer Lane Hewitt returns to his hometown for his aunt's funeral, and finds his other elderly aunt needs to renovate her Victorian home. His Aunt Ester has remodeled each bedroom with a different author theme while emulating each famous author wearing distinct clothes of that writer, maybe just an eccentric oddity on her part. Lane discovers a disturbing mystery involving multiple murders and secret burials in his aunt's rose garden. Lane races against time to have his Aunt Ester committed to a psychiatric facility before she is arrested while learning the family history. His mother wasn’t actually related to the women, but they are the only family he has. The Federal officers reveal that Aunt Ester along with her sister Aunt Rachel and friend Bessie Miller, had been "helping" lonely old men by poisoning them and giving them "Christian burials" in their backyard. He must decide whether to reject Hollywood and start a screenwriting school in the newly renovated Victorian home. With the contractor's daughter, Jessie Westcott, Lane finds a new purpose in life just as the "Painted Lady," finds a new purpose in the small town of Superior, Nebraska.