Former presidential aide Ryan Belvedere has been drifting in a fog of misery ever since his president was killed, but he reluctantly agrees to do a favor for a friend-fetching a rare book from a crumbling manor house in England. There he meets Sidney Blount-a cold, sophisticated, Dominant-who's at the same house to appraise the family art. It doesn't take Sidney long to appraise Ryan too, and decide exactly what Ryan needs. Which just so happens...