A man, down on his luck, invents a business partner and build an aura around him that leads to opportunities and complications in equal measure.

A failed businessman starts lying to people telling them he has a fictitious foreign associate, which turns out to be the key for him to start being successful.

An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.

A comedy about making it on Wall Street. Prejudices are hard to break and Laurel Ayres quickly learns that in order for people to take her seriously she has to work for an older white man or be one.