The house near Dublin Square in Washington Heights is a gingerbread monument of a day gone by. A day of gaslights and handsome cabs, to a day when a dollar was a dollar, and the Lansing family its share of them! From that era, only Sarah Lansing survives to rule the gingerbread house from the big front bedroom where she has lain for sixteen years. But when the wealthy old widow is found dead from a fall, her son's relationship with his wife turns ever more sour, as he keeps her a virtual prisoner in the house. Until he is found dead too...