Ryan is a womanizing stockbroker whose unethical business practices cost him his job and his trader's license. Unable to find another job, he is forced to move in with his equally self-involved (and completely oblivious) girlfriend, Cindy, an insensitive advice columnist on the cusp of losing her own job due to her poor advice and slow work habits. Finding that the truth behind his moving in has nothing to do with romance, Cindy runs off with another man. Ryan decides to stay in the apartment and earn a living by doing Cindy's job. Ryan establishes himself with Cindy's editor, Page, as Cindy's go-fer, collecting Cindy's paychecks and mail and delivering her columns. Initially as hopelessly inept as Cindy in giving advice, he nearly gets the column canceled. However, he rapidly grows into the job and the combination of forced introspection, research and the growing knowledge that he is touching other people's lives transforms him. The column becomes an amazing success. Ryan finds his initially superficial attraction to Page growing into love, but he cannot reveal his feelings while he is a deceptive fraud. Meanwhile, Cindy becomes aware of her growing fame, and returns to cash in, at the same time that the owner of a rival newspaper chain attempts to force Page to sell Cindy's column to him.
몰래할수록 더욱 끌리는… 회사일과 낚시에 빠져 사는 남편때문에 외롭고 무료한 나날을 보내는 수연. 어느날 그녀의 옆집에 학창시절 친구였던 수지가 이사를 온다. 수지와 그녀의 남편 상민과의 정사장면을 몰래 훔쳐보며 억눌렸던 욕망을 주체하지 못하던 수연은 결국 수지가 출장을 간 사이 상민과 뜨거운 정사를 나눈다. 그날 밤, 수지와 함께 차에서 내려 다정하게 그녀를 챙기는 남편을 목격한 수연은 둘의 부적절한 관계를 의심하고, 다음날 수지를 불러낸 수연은 그녀에게서 충격적인 고백을 듣게되는데...