Struggling freelance writer and mother of seven fiendish children, Harriet Ross is the focus of the comings and goings on Toronto's trendy "Ratsbone" Place. A custody battle, her children's excesses, two insane sisters and a secret lover add to the complications of her life. She's not kidding when she signs a column "Depressed Housewife." A chronicle of one year in Harriet's life, Lunatic Villas is brilliantly subversive humour.