Days before her courthouse wedding, Naomi discovers her fiancé Trevor and his mother Diane have been secretly diverting wedding funds, drafting a twenty-three-page household financial plan, and preparing an authorization form demanding her bank PIN, all without her consent. When she refuses and tries to leave, Trevor blocks the doorway while Diane insists she’s simply being unreasonable about “family budgeting.”

Calmly activating a silent security alarm on her phone, Naomi opens the envelope fully and discovers a hidden power-of-attorney document beneath the authorization form, one Trevor had never actually seen, with a handwritten note from his mother instructing that Naomi sign it while “still calm” after the courthouse appointment. For the first time, Trevor looks genuinely stunned by what his mother has been planning.