Gerald Owen was the President of WarmBodyJobs.com, a recruiting job board targeting candidates who have neither talent nor skills. It became a huge financial success until his partner, Marty, embezzles the company’s tax money and skips town, leaving Gerald to take the rap with the IRS.
To avoid a long prison sentence, Gerald jumps bail and flies to Miami. He boards an earlier flight by switching airline tickets with Arnold Puffin, an undercover DEA agent, whom he found lying unconscious in the men's restroom, Mistaken for Puffin, Gerald is chauffeured to the Golden Beach mansion of Vincent Campari, a reputed Mob Boss. Puffin had been invited to stay as a guest of Vincent’s daughter, who is fortuitously stuck in Paris. DEA agents, who have been staking out Vincent’s home, are delighted in the mistaken belief that their secret agent has penetrated the Campari home.
Assuming his new identity, Gerald stays with the dysfunctional Campari family and lives a charmed life, enjoying sexual favors while facing untold attempts on his life. And then the real Arnold Puffin turns up......