When filthy-rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira and their two kids -- ©ober-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis -- suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup and rebuild their empire from within the rural city limits of their only remaining asset - Schitt's Creek, an armpit of a town they once bought as a joke.

The Rose family's dreams of escaping their town are suddenly thwarted when the town's potential buyer succumbs to a diabetic coma. It's now clear that their stay in this simple setting will be much longer than they ever imagined. Faced with this horrific truth, the Roses must do the only thing they can: change the town from within.

When a wealthy video store owner and his family suddenly go broke, they are forced to move to the small Canadian town of Schitt's Creek.

A widow and mother joins the ranks of a local crime family. After becoming romantically involved with the married mob captain, she finds herself caught between the Feds, the Family, and the man she loves. Inspired by a true story.