Tom a young man of twenty-one arrives home from the army to his widowed mother only to find she has a new man in her life and has sold the farm to go live abroad. His mother has already found him somewhere to live and work for a lady a few miles away at another farm. Mrs. Williams his new landlady and boss owns both her own farm plus his fathers and another to the others side of her but does not employ any workers as she has five strapping daughters ranging in ages from twenty-one to thirty-six and between them all work the largest farm in the county. As the women, don't have any social time for themselves they make Tom their entertainment.