Both having been married before with each bringing their own children into the union, Mike and Maud, who have been married for three years, are deeply in love. But their money problems are causing each, especially Mike, distress, emotionally and physically. Mike, a warehouse manager, makes about $52,000 a year, depending on how much overtime he decides to work. Maud decided to throw in her office job to work doing freelance bookkeeping from home, making about $18,000 a year.