THE MAKE-BELIEVE MAN Norma Hovic is recently widowed and living with her 11-year-old son in her mother's house. When her mother leaves to stay with Norma's sister, who is expecting, Norma is at first pleased to have the house to herself. But then Cliff appears. Cliff had been her mother's roomer until Norma came to live with her. She had heard all about Cliff. But the Cliff who shows up at her doorstep is another matter altogether...