Janie Carter, a martyr's widow, had her 200,000 Survivor's Pension embezzled by her cruel mother-in-law and brother-in-law before being cast out. She gains the magical ability to communicate with old objects in the Old Family Homestead. With their help, she starts a street stall business using a lost ancestral tofu-making skill, humiliates the greedy relatives, and saves Grandma Grant, a wealthy family matriarch. This begins her rags-to-riches journey.