 An ex-wife (Jennifer Grant), hooked on uncontrolled consumerism, strives to rob her ex-husband (Timothy Busfield) and his nice new wife (Melora Hardin) of all of their earnings in this black comedy. However, the ex-wife has hooked up with a millionaire (M. Emmet Walsh) and lays around her mansion all day while her struggling ex-husband lives in abject poverty in a ramshackle apartment. Finally getting fed up, they decide to hire a hit-man to do her in. Of course, the hit man is a bungler.