A meek, ineffectual copywriter switches careers and invents a fictional English business partner to spearhead his new financial consultation.
Success is immediate.
His associate, the imaginary Mr. Davis, never appears at dinners or conferences or to accept his National Order of Merit, but nobody seems to mind much. Except his creator. Deeply wounded that his clients, wife, and mistress seem to prefer Davis, he s traumatized. He decides to kill Davis. In a hilarious sequence at a medical lab, he searches for a suitable skeleton.