Bill and Julie live in thrifty middle-class wedded bliss with their 12-year-old son Sean. Julie brings home the bacon while Bill keeps house and frets over his never-ending PhD thesis: an anthropological study of the role of men in society. All is relatively well until Julie's ex-fianc , the dashing and successful Blake Morgan, returns to Winnipeg-with his wife and kids.
While Bill takes solace in Blake's premature grey and pot belly, next...