Eight Years a Substitute, Eight Boyfriends in Return

For eight years, Elia has waited for her boyfriend Robertson to keep his promise: once he saved $200,000, he would marry her. Year after year the excuse changed—expenses, a new car—while she stayed by his side, believing in the future he kept postponing.

Then, at a class reunion, she overhears the truth. Behind the door, Robertson's friends mock her as a cheap substitute for his first love, Elliot, and Robertson himself says Elia is worn out and not worth $200,000—at most a day of his salary. When he later calls her Elliot in his sleep, Elia finally understands what she has been to him.

She ends the relationship, resigns from the firm where Robertson is a partner, and agrees to meet the man her matchmaker mother once recommended. But when Elliot returns from abroad and joins the firm arm in arm with Robertson, Elia must face the woman she was only ever standing in for.