Actress Evie Crump seems to have it all: glamorous job, beautiful man, and now- thanks to an unexpected inheritance- a lovely big house. In reality, Crump isn't the name to get Hollywood producers banging on her door, the man is her best friend Bing, the house is a rambling ruin complete with lodgers from hell. Then Evie gets her big break- in a dog food commercial. Suddenly she has two roles to play: leading lady to her gorgeous leading man, and a reluctant landlady in the real-life soap opera of 18 Kemp street- where the plot is about to thicken.