Lisa is a romance writer, recently chucked by her two-timing boyfriend, furious with her mother for suggesting that at 35 she's on the shelf. She's so furious, in fact, that she swears she'll marry the next man who proposes. But the next man is short, fat, and unattractive, with no redeeming features that she can see. Except his flat in Monte Carlo, and the possibility of starting life. completely afresh...