Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are moving in with their new guardians, the incredibly wealthy Esme and Jerome Squalor. Jerome is nice but he goes along with everything his wife says, and all his wife cares about is what is in, and what is out. The Baudelaire children have to play along with everything while trying to find their missing friends, the Quagmires. But when Count Olaf once again shows up in a disguise that fools everyone, the Baudelaires know the Quagmires must be nearby, and that Olaf seems to have an inside accomplice. Will they be able to find their friends and stop Count Olaf? And will anything good ever happen in this series of unfortunate events?