Ben Healy is a good-natured guy working for his father, "Big Ben", a very successful, but tyrannical sporting goods dealer running for mayor. Although Ben has worked under his father's employ without so much as a raise or promotion in return, his father plans on handing over control of the company and ownership of the land to Japanese buyers rather than passing it on to his son, seeing his son as "too nice" to be his heir. Meanwhile, Ben and his social-climbing wife, Flo, have been unable to conceive, and visit a fertility doctor who tells them they are both infertile.