The Drop of a Plug the story of a middle-aged successful business man named Van Carston. Van's success stemmed from his ownership of many local restaurants and hotels in the small and quaint town of Greenfield Tennessee. On his son's eighteenth birthday, Van slipped into a coma as a result of a tragic accident. The doctor and his colleagues came to the conclusion that Van Carston was doomed to never wake up from his coma. As Van's past comes back to haunt him in more ways than one, it is up to his family to reconnect with each other and decide whether or not to take him off of life support.