The Dead, the Door, and the Double-Minded

A prominent and well-respected Mississippi mental institution has introduced a new vocational program that will allow female residents to work in the community as home companions to elderly women who wish to remain in their homes and out of nursing facilities. But when social worker Joanna Geyer observes one of these residents on a shopping spree, accompanied by the son of the elderly woman to whom she is assigned, she is concerned that it may not be the elderly to which their companionship...