The Wide Window

In Lemony Snicket's 'The Wide Window,' the ever-unfortunate Baudelaire orphans — Violet, Klaus, and Sunny — find themselves placed with their third guardian, the timid and grammatically obsessed Aunt Josephine Anwhistle. She resides in a rickety house perched precariously above the leeches-infested Lake Lachrymose, a place Josephine fears with every fiber of her being, along with nearly everything else. Just as the children begin to adjust to their new, albeit eccentric, home, the nefarious Count Olaf reappears, disguised as the one-legged sailor Captain Sham. Olaf's latest scheme involves manipulating Aunt Josephine's myriad phobias and insecurities to gain control of the Baudelaire fortune, forcing the children to uncover his deception before it's too late. As a terrifying hurricane, appropriately named Herman, barrels towards Lake Lachrymose, the orphans must confront their guardian's debilitating fears and Count Olaf's cruel machinations in a desperate fight for survival and to protect their inheritance, proving once again that misery follows them relentlessly.