Rita collects people like she does dogs, cats, ants and even an unwanted police horse. But then her father remarries: her stepmother is determined to tidy up ho... » 

Rita collects people like she does dogs, cats, ants and even an unwanted police horse. But then her father remarries: her stepmother is determined to tidy up house, husband and stepdaughter, and move into respectable society. Rita's charm and liveliness become compressed by the pressure to conform. «