The Knight family of Grosse Pointe, Michigan has always hated the Fitzpatrick family down to the first time the two families met in 1963. Benton Knight always trying to please his ailing father Heathcliff tries his hardest to take the Fitzpatrick clan down. However, an unlikely friendship between his with Delia and the eldest Fitzpatrick child, Susan inevitably paves the way to the rise of Fitzpatrick Steel which would one day become The Fitzpatrick Group under Susan's younger brother Brandon and his future wife Nadia Bloom.

In 2018, Margot Fitzpatrick the daughter of famed couple Nadia and Brandon Fitzpatrick run The Fitzpatrick Group for her semi-retired parents. When her son Perry returns to town, she is forced to welcome him back into the company. Perry starts up a friendship with Lucy Kingsley the business partner of the missing in action Vivica Weston-Fitzpatrick-Knight-Fitzpatrick-Fitzpatrick possibly soon to be Knight again if her maid and best friend Holly is able to find her. Her fianc and the longtime love of her life Cliff Knight has had no success in finding her himself. Meanwhile, Lucy's younger sister Langley struggles to keep her romance with Vivica's son and Margot's nephew Brad as their views on life are entirely different. It doesn't help when Brad's cousin and best friend Harry Knight start a friendship and possible relationship with mobster's son Preston Costa.