When she’s evicted from yet another home, lifelong schemer and freeloader Myrtle, cousin to wealthy and socially naive entrepreneur Sam Sharpe, pretends to be sick and moves in with him and his much younger and very attractive wife, Jessie, a gold-digger who believed that Sam could give her the comfortable life she always wanted. But when Myrtle’s schemes backfire and end up hurting her, Sam is truly hurt because he never believed that Myrtle would aim her conniving ways at him. Jessie starts to realize how kind her husband really is, and her feelings for him start to grow. But, one day she meets a handsome, mysterious stranger in town. As he starts to fill her thoughts, Jessie wonders whether this man will be able to do to her marriage what Cousin Myrtle could not.