This is the story of the Kaufman house and the cast of characters that populated its rooms when Rita (Kaufman) Bauman was growing up there in the age of the Great Depression. Everyone from mother Fritz, who believed that ÒIf a little butter made it good, a lot of butter made it better,Ó to Hannah La Motte the gossipy seamstress, to the Kaufman brothers, whose family business had them scrapping the Panama Canal, are chronicled here, providing us with a funny and poignant look into one very full household through the eyes of a little girl.