Debbie Harper is not just a boss in a skirt, but the head of a family of real oddballs. If Debbie earns money, her husband, a homebody and control freak Freddie, prefers to handle the housework and look after their 11-year-old unstoppable optimist Ollie and Ollie's twin brother Todd, an introvert with a hint of intellect. When Debbie loses her job, the whole family moves into the Victorian mansion left to them as an inheritance, a house that, it seems, no one has set foot in for a long time.