 Chantel worries about her new marriage to photographer Eugene failing so she decides to take her mother s advice and manipulate him. First, her mother gives her a book that will solve all her problems about how to treat a husband - namely a book on how to train dogs. Then, her mother gives her a second trick, an imaginary boyfriend who used to come in handy during her own marriage to Chantel s father. However, if Chantel s mother made this man up, what is she going to do when Eugene brings him home for dinner one night?