A role reversal story of a man whose former college ROTC student wife is sent to Iraq. Matt Whittaker must stay at home while his wife faces the horrors of the war in Iraq. Matt is unable to cope with his wife`s absence and his neighbor Karen, a woman whose husband has been in desert storm and is now back in Iraq, decides to stage an intervention to help him cope. Matt joins the military wife support group and is finally given suggestions on how to live his life. Meanwhile in Iraq Matt`s wife, Celia, is caught in an ambush and must fight to survive.