When a retired high school teacher Eva (Shirley McLaine) loses her husband, she mistakenly receives a
$5,000,000 check on her deceased husband’s $50,000 life insurance policy. Her friend Maddie (Jessica
Lange), whose husband has just left her for a younger woman, convinces her to keep the money and they
both depart to live it up at a resort on Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands.