The year is 1941. The location is a small house next to a cemetery in Brooklyn. In this house live two sweet, old, ladies (Martha and Abby Brewster) who have developed a very bad habit. It appears that they murder lonely old men who have some sort of religious affiliation and they consider doing it a charity. They then leave it to their bugle blowing nephew Teddy (who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt) to take them to the Panama Canal (the cellar) and bury them.