Caught up in the whirl of having a life again, accountant and avid golfer Cleopatra Jones nearly misses her mother's increasingly odd behavior. Mama is rigid with fury after a very public blowup with her archrival. Two days later the woman is dead, the victim of a hit and run in the church parking lot, and the police finger Mama as the main suspect. Dead certain they're wrong, Cleo sets out to clear her mother's good name.