Unexpected challenges confront Mick Manage, the manager of a large department store. As his terminally ill boss prepares to sell the company to an out-of-state chain, Mick determines to salvage the company and save the jobs of all the workers. The chain expecting to buy the stores launches amazingly aggressive schemes that often turn comical but which reveal immense greed and criminal activity. Mick is required to fight vigorously and counters with hilariously creative plans. With the cooperation of the owner and financial help from a sympathetic source, he is ultimately successful. Throughout the course of fighting the other company, Mick falls genuinely and vividly in love after encounters with other women. Mick also engineers the ascendancy of an African American to lead the new company. A positive multicultural portrayal and respect for women are fundamental to the story as are high workplace ideals and respect for workers. Greed, unethical corporate conduct and outrageous behavior is depicted. But humor lifts the tale and heart ultimately claims victory with workers owning the company themselves.