In Molière’s comedy classic, The Imaginary Invalid, Argan--our hypochondriacal protagonist--makes everyone in his life miserable
with his melodramatic suffering and endless, unnecessary curative treatments.

His doctor and apothecary are bleeding him dry--literally and figuratively.

His duplicitous second wife and her lawyer “friend” are scheming to inherit his whole estate, by carting his daughters off to a convent.

Angélique, the eldest daughter, is in love with Cléante, but Argan engages her Thomas Diaforus, an idiot doctor-in-training, so that
Thomas and his father will always be around to take care of him . . . (for free!)

Argan’s foolish and unshakable devotion to medicine is out of control. Only the brilliant collaboration of the maid, Toinette, with his
brother, Beralde, can foil the wife, conquer the doctors, bring together the lovers, and satisfy Argan.