SYNOPSIS: Dueling family businesses, long-lost lovers, double-crossing backstabbers and backdoor trysts, amnesiacs and murderers, philanderers and evil twins—they're all part of the soap opera. See how two filthy rich tycoons—Morgan Newbury and Jack Phillips—try to destroy each other's lives, businesses and futures. Will Morgan defeat his identical twin and overcome the attempt to overtake the family business? Will Morgan's daughters, Mandy and Mindy, give in to Jack Phillips' spell and surrender to his maddening desires? Will the Newbury family beat Jack Phillips to the new cholesterol-lowering operation that promises to change the world forever and make its owner the richest man in the world? Will Jack Phillips live after contracting a rare and fatal disease in the deepest, darkest jungles of Africa? Will Morgan's wife, Rachael, be discovered in her affair with Raul, the house servant, and her evil plot to kill Morgan, murder his children and take the family fortune for herself? The answers can only be found in The Vain and the Heartless.