Kit Kincade, American, with diamond-studded ears and friends in low places, believes women are little more than a life support system to an ovary.
Shelly Green, pinstripe-underpanted, cultured, classical guitarist, thinks optimism is an eye disease and hates all men.
The perfect pair? Yes, according to a 'Desperate and Dateless' reality TV competition. A computer has matched them - physically and emotionally - with huge financial rewards if they can survive their five-star honeymoon on a paradise island.
Kit and Shelly meet the day they are to be married . . . and it's hate at first sight! Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye opener.