Fiona Stewart is a poor cook, but a fine spinner of plates. Plate one: her marriage, wobbling a little. Two, her daughters, growing fast. Three, a mother who thinks she can't manage on her own. Four, her philandering friend, Lesley. Five, her job as an account executive with Paro, a multinational pharmaceutical company. Then she meets Brian Moran, the arrogant and attractive owner of Arkle Chemists. She discovers his involvement in a lucrative back-scratching arrangement, amounting to fraud from within Paro. In trying to stop the deal, she falls victim to a campaign of harassment from Moran. Naturally, her attention is diverted. Something is going to break.