A lesbian hires a male escort to hire and then dump her former lover, in the hope that the lover will then be driven back into her arms. The situation becomes complicated when the escort and the lover fall in love.

In 1966, Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim was offered the opportunity to write a one-hour musical for television to be broadcast on the ABC Stage 67 series. He turned to his collaborator, James Goldman, with whom he was developing a musical that would emerge later as Follies, and they adapted a James Collier short …