Eddie and Lou are two small-time con artists on the run from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and learn through the answering machine that (A) the owner is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter assigned to the absent owner has moved to another area of the nation. This is great for Eddie and Lou...until the house owner's relatives show up. Eddie immediately assumes the persona of the owner's housesitter, and the fun begins.