The wealthy Martin Family – Wallace, Connie, and daughter Aspen – return home from a vacation. Their Butler, Thomas Smythe, finds out from the tired Wallace that Connie used the vacation simply as an excuse to shop.
While Wallace unpacks the car, Adam DuMock – a James Dean rebel type without class – shows up to apply for the vacant handyman position at the house. He and Thomas do not get along from the start...
The wealthy Martin Family – Wallace, Connie, and daughter Aspen – return home from a vacation. Their Butler, Thomas Smythe, finds out from the tired Wallace that Connie used the vacation simply as an excuse to shop.
While Wallace unpacks the car, Adam DuMock – a James Dean rebel type without class – shows up to apply for the vacant handyman position at the house. He and Thomas do not get along from the start, but Wallace hires him simply because he doesn’t want to hear his wife gripe or do any of her work.
Adam finds a love letter intended for Connie in her luggage that Thomas mistakenly gives to Wallace, thinking it was for him. Wallace reads the letter, finding out that Connie is having an affair with an anonymous man and immediately thinks it is Adam. Adam, in the meantime, meets Aspen and falls in love with her. Wallace calls his friend, Gary Pell, to come over and help him deal with his cheating wife.
After Gary arrives, it is discovered by the audience that he is the one who sent the letter to Connie and that they are having the affair. Aspen has fallen for Adam and Connie is not happy about it. Through a series of unfortunate events, Thomas tries to fire Adam but is stopped by Connie after she and Gary hatch a plan to drive Wallace to harming Adam, thereby having him thrown in jail so that she can file for divorce.
The first act comes to a head when Adam’s brothers -- Tony, the brains of the outfit, and Joey, the large, philosophical brother -- show up at the house believing nobody but Adam is there, in order to clean it out. Adam is simply the front of a home-theft ring. Everybody comes together in the living room after Wallace destroys Adam’s motorcycle and finds Gary and Connie in bed together. Aspen also declares her intention to run away with Adam.
Act II finds the Martin family, Gary, and Thomas being held as hostages while the brothers go through the house to figure out what they can steal. They are forced to deal with each other and talk about what just happened.
A plan is hatched to get Thomas out of the house through a second-floor window in order to go for help but is ruined when the rose trellis Thomas is supposed to be climbing down breaks, throwing Thomas to the ground directly in view of the large picture window.
Tony has had enough and is about to hurt Thomas for good when Sammy Swanson shows up to fix the overhead garage door. Adam falls for her, much to Aspen’s horror, when he finds out that Sammy’s father owns the local Harley-Davidson dealership. Even a deliveryman from Gary Pell’s furniture store, delivering a replacement desk for the one that Connie and Gary broke in Wallace’s den, shows up and gets pulled in as a hostage.
All seems lost until Sheriff O’Hurley arrives, being forced to negotiate with Tony wearing nothing but his boxers, t-shirt, hat, and badge. Tony finally gets frustrated and decides to hurt the family until Joey knocks him out, seeing what a family is really like.
