Jamie is a small, slim effeminate husband but his wife Anne loves him that way. Her mother, Cassandra is not impressed, she had wanted her daughter to marry a real man. When Cassandra has to come to stay with the couple, she decides to do something about her daughter's gentle but weak husband. When she spots him doing something he shouldn't, she decides to use that to make him do what she tells him and it's the beginning of Jamie's change.
