In the beginning...

"That's a great fantasy. Now you're going to have to let it go because it won't happen. Lasting relationships are built on friendship and compatibility."

-- Pragmatic Dr. Claire Allen dismissing Trevor "Cupid" Hale's views on romantic love during a singles group meeting

From director/executive producer Scott Winant (THIRTYSOMETHING, MY SO-CALLED LIFE), author Rob Thomas and Mandalay Television comes an edgy romantic comedy for romantics everywhere, hopeless and otherwise.

Psychiatric and relationship expert Claire Allen is ready to abandon her plans for a book on love and romance when a colleague introduces her to an institutionalized patient claiming to be Cupid. The man insists he has been sent back to Earth to relearn his craft. He became lax in the 1980s and 1990s, resulting in a lot of bad matches and divorces. He won’t be allowed back to Mount Olympus, he says, until he’s made lasting matches of one hundred couples. After weeks of therapy sessions with Claire, the man remembers his real name -- Trevor Hale. Believing he’s cured, the state mental health board agrees to Trevor’s release on the condition that Claire continue to monitor his progress.

Within minutes of release, Trevor goes about the business of being Cupid. He regards Claire’s invitation to join a group of lonely singles, which she monitors, as an opportunity to shoot fish in a barrel. Trevor immediately makes his presence felt in the group, challenging Claire’s contention that lasting relationships are based on friendship and compatibility. Heat and passion are the foundation of love, he tells his captive audience.

Only after his first matched couple comes apart at the seams does Trevor realize the difficulty of his task. There’s only one person he knows to turn to for help and friendship, and it’s Claire. Also keeping an eye on Trevor is his roommate, Champ, a struggling African-American actor who refuses to take roles written specifically as black characters. Trevor enlists Champ to facilitate many of his romances.

Despite a feisty doctor/patient relationship, Claire and Trevor have an inexplicable attraction. They argue and battle but sometimes also enlighten. Is Trevor Hale really Cupid? Claire doesn’t believe it for a moment, but she thinks she may have found the topic for her next book.