Set in Yonkers, 1942, Bella a 35yr old, is mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne-r do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, Bella and her brother Louie, a small time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.