Career driven Suzannah Hayden needs a lot more help on the home front than she’s getting from her husband, Gibby . Enter Beth Bailey, Suzannah’s newly hired assistant, a gregarious, highly motivated daughter of the South. In no time, she exceeds her duties as a household assistant and interjects herself into Suzannah’s career. As Suzannah’s dependence on Beth grows, she gives Beth carte blanche to change anything in the household; and the change Beth makes is convincing Suzannah that Gibby must go! When he realises it’s Suzannah’s career Beth is really after, a newly determined Gibby sets out to save his marriage aided by Suzannah’s best friend, Margo, a wisecracking and self deprecating divorcee and her ex husband, Hank, who is in the midst of his own mid life crisis. Their effort to stop Beth at any cost sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry just as Suzannah’s boss arrives for that all important dinner.