He is unemployed and bankrupt, while his previously biddable wife is thriving in a new position and has embarked upon an affair with the young boss of the company employing her.
A young boss who is black, lesbian, and VERY dominant.
A dominant lesbian boss who just happens to think the handsome but demoralised husband will make her and the lover married to him the most perfect and obedient of household chattels.
Once he has been conditioned, of course.
Exotic female led fiction from Clarice Darling.