A family reacts to the return of the patriarch who abandoned them seven years prior.
The story surrounds what happens to a woman and her son after her adventurer husband disappears in the jungle searching for diamonds seven years ago. He has just barely been declared dead, so her two hopeful suitors (a doctor and a door-to-door vacuum salesman) are waiting eagerly to win her now available hand. Problem is, hubby comes back! The story is commented on from the afterlife by the husband's alcoholic ex-wife, a German officer who hubby killed in the war, and a little girl who was killed by an ice cream truck on her birthday.
