Kate Robbins

A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.

After a car crash, Tammy and injured basketball players are hospitalized. When a nurse kisses dying Tammy, an alien infection spreads through the hospital staff and patients. The facility is quarantined as infected people seek sugar.

Since self-made immigrant Nico Podaras's death, widow Elenie runs his lucrative garage, with an illegal side business, generously using the profits to keep control of their three sons' lives. Simpleton Dan is happy to sire the crucial heir without hesitation to keep unruly, immature wife Charlene in line, but goes to far, so she absconds pregnant. Firstborn John gave up his dream, fishery, to work in the garage. When he marries Kathryn, she starts questioning and resisting Elenie's matriarchal manipulation, but bares her a grandson. The conflict escalates, leaving John torn between loyalties.