Paul Château Têtard, 48, falls in love with a young woman working as a counter clerk in the subway. When he plans to marry her, his mother launches a private detective on her tracks to prove she's cheating on her son.
影片开始于两个都叫玛丽的少女（Jitka Cerhová 和 Ivana Karbanová 饰）的对话：没有人理解我们，这个世界上的一切正在变得越来越糟糕。于是两人决定：我们也要变得越来越坏！玛丽一号喜欢和老男人约会，在他们吃饭的时候，玛丽二号会突然出现，旁若无人地大吃特吃。玛丽一号把老男人送上火车，老男人以为她会陪着他，火车开动，她却下了火车。玛丽二号在一个收藏蝴蝶标本的男青年家中，用他的标本遮住自己身体的隐秘部位。她们在夜总会里捣乱，最后被赶走。她们无意中闯入一个没有人的宴会，开始肆无忌惮地享受美食.....本片献给精神生活一团糟的人们。
故事发生在车水马龙的大都市纽约，杰瑞（加里·格兰特 Cary Grant 饰）和露西（艾琳·邓恩 Irene Dunne 饰）是一对感情十分要好的夫妻，两人时常结伴出入上流人士所举办的高端晚宴之中，生活极尽奢华，但随着时间的推移，这表面幸福的婚姻生活终究还是出现了裂痕，杰瑞和露西决定离婚。 在两人分开之后，杰瑞邂逅了富有而又美丽的遗孀芭芭拉（莫莉·拉蒙特 Molly Lamont 饰），露西则傍上了石油大亨丹尼尔（拉尔夫·贝拉米 Ralph Bellamy 饰），可寻找到了各自幸福的两人却并不能相安无事，正相反，他们开始想方设法的破坏和阻挠对方的情感关系，就此引出了一系列荒诞可笑的意外。
Joseph Fulton, a well-regarded fifty-eight-year-old director of romantic comedies, wants to become assistant groundskeeper at a local cemetery. He wants to work outdoors and be close to nature. Meanwhile, he thinks it’s important to have his last will and testament drawn up. But his highly dramatic actress girlfriend thinks he must be dying and that he is just too brave to tell anyone. The rumor spreads and soon everyone he knows—and some he doesn’t—are crowded into his small apartment to say their last farewells.
