It's Friday night, and Gemma and Sarah have met up for their regular Friday night cocktails - and another regular ritual. Yep, Sarah's been dumped again, so she needs to add a new guy to the "bastard list". The list was originally started to warn their female friends about potential "bastards" - a list of guys who had done the girls wrong. Six years on, the list has grown to twenty yellowed, dirty and milo-stained pages. And so, the idea for a virtual list. Sarah suggests that Gemma put the list on her homepage, preserving it for all eternity. They start typing, and soon enough the idea to turn the bastard list into an Internet affair - to let women from all over the world add their bastards too.
When she logs back on, Gemma is stunned to find hundreds of entries, and within days, thousands. Allmenarebastards.com is born.
The site is an overnight success and word spreads like wildfire as women from all corners of the globe spew bile about the bastards they have known. At first it's all a lot of fun. But when Gemma's ex-fiance tells her he's getting married, she starts to believe in the site a little too much . . .
Somehow she's got to set things right with the men in her life. But the $100,000-pay-packet-a-year question is, can she do that and still keep the site going?
