This is the story of Jessica and Stanley, a married couple who finally achieve their dream of buying a new house. Unfortunately for them, this dream soon becomes a nightmare.
A pleasant country house weekend is interrupted when the family cat brings in a pair of human fingers instead of the usual mouse or bird. But not even murder can be allowed to disrupt the meticulous veneer of British respectability.
Lee returns to England after a long absence to oversee the sale of his childhood home and visit the couple looking after his tyrannical mother whom he avoids seeing, but the couple's overbearing niceness may hide sinister intentions.
A yuppie couple takes in an octogenarian husband and wife from the local old folks' home, but the twosome proves to be more difficult to live with than expected.