My Love, Out of Service

Finn Carter is married to Renee Lane, and for five years he has done the daily work of the marriage while she treats him as a stand-in for Mike Smith, the man she never got over. The arrangement is a contract Finn signed with Renee's mother to repay a debt he owed her: five years of staying with her daughter and helping her out of a broken engagement. The five years run out around the time Mike comes back to the country. Finn files for divorce and leaves a letter with the papers. Renee, used to being looked after, had never noticed what he actually felt. She goes looking for him and finds nothing, and it is her mother who tells her about the contract. Finn has already started somewhere else.