本剧改编自Taffy Brodesser-Akner的同名畅销小说，作者本人担任编剧。　　故事讲述了四十多岁的Toby Fleishman最近分居了，他当年医学院还没毕业就结了婚，如今一头栽进通过APP约会的新世界里，这让他体验到了年轻时不曾有过的成功。就在他实现性自由的第一个夏天刚开始时，前妻Rachel突然消失，把孩子留给了他，自此杳无音讯。Toby在各种事情之间平衡着自己的生活——抚养孩子，与老朋友重新联系，在医院迎来等待已久的晋升，以及曼哈顿众多适合自己的女性。但他意识到，要想弄明白Rachel身上到底发生了什么，只有坦诚地审视两人的婚姻。

Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be even more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a strange, shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to help him to achieve his end. Beal convinces hesitating Foster by dint of easy money, easy sex with an alluring young woman and the promise of easy success. Joseph Foster soon becomes an influential politician but a corrupt one. A minister of God manages to show him that he has been the plaything of the so-called Nick Beal, who might be Old Nick , that is to say Satan himself. Foster then decides to resign and to become an honest man again.