He is unemployed and bankrupt, while his previously wife is thriving in a new position and has embarked upon an affair with the company's young boss. Her boss is black, lesbian, and VERY dominant, and she just happens to believe that her new lover's handsome but demoralised husband will make him the most perfect and obedient of household chattels. Once he has been conditioned, of course. "Knocking on her door gently and waiting for her to give me permission to enter – this to a room in a house that belonged now to my wife and had once been mine – I could hardly help but be amazed by the changes the black girl had affected in my life since her arrival five weeks ago. The short stay while she looked for her dream house had become long-term and Estelle had already informed me that Vonda wasn't looking anymore as she was comfortable here with us. The nightmare I already considered my life to have become went from the first day of her arrival, swiftly downhill into... Purgatory."