After an on-the-job accident, veteran firefighter Larry Valentine realizes that bureaucratic red tape prevents him from naming his children as life insurance beneficiaries. To skirt the system, the widower persuades his best friend and coworker, confirmed bachelor Chuck, to enter into a sham same-sex domestic partnership. Things spiral out of control when a relentless government investigator looks into their private lives, forcing the two men to pose as a loving couple while tangling themselves in lies and turning the entire town upside down.