Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company| and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success| auto industry mogulGifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant| she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career;Sid and Elizabeth| he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage| she positive that his job will kill him| but gamelyagreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill| whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllicfamiliy existence.