A New York press agent applies his show-business acumen to revitalize his ailing father's Indiana fruit farm.

Bob Tredici is a big-time New York City publicist who left the family far behind years ago to pursue his career in show business. However when his father is in an accident bob returns home to Indiana to be with him. While spending time on his father's farm bob takes a liking to the work on the farm causing a conflict between himself and his cousin Greg who thought that he would take over the farm after Bob abandoned it. When Bob convinces his secretary to pose as his wife in order to curry favor with his father the family begins to unravel at the seems over Bob and Greg's heated rivalry in this heart-rending but warm drama, featuring Tyne Daly.

A Piece of Eden is a bittersweet comedy that follows three generations of the unlucky Tredici family from Corsica in the 1940's to an Indiana fruit farm in the present. Young Bob, the first member of the family born in America, is heir to the family farm, but has no interest in farming and leaves to pursue a show business career in New York. When his father becomes ill, Bob returns and tries to revitalize the farm while cousin Greg tries to take it away from him.