At age 63, Will T. Hopkins stands looking at his reflection in the kitchen window, speculating about his future with a prediction he's not qualified to make: "I've probably just got another twenty good years. Lots of people don't live that long." Three days later his family have gathered for his funeral: his wife, Lillian Pearl, who walks everywhere she goes out of necessity, but also because of the altered state of consciousness it brings her; their pot-smoking daughter, Judy, whose only ambition is to become respectable and will lie, cheat, and steal to get there; their oldest son,...