维克多(加里·格兰特 Cary Grant 饰)出生于贵族之家,但如今他的家族早已没落,为了维持生计,维克多不得已将所居住的庄园向游客开放以赚取门票。维克多有一位非常美丽的妻子名叫海拉瑞(黛博拉·蔻儿 Deborah Kerr 饰),涉世未深的海拉瑞非常的天真单纯,一次偶然中,她邂逅了名为查尔斯(罗伯特·米彻姆 Robert Mitchum 饰)的美国游客,在查尔斯的哄骗和诱惑之下,海拉瑞献出了自己的真心。
Astronomer Bill Whitley is so preoccupied with the new comet he's discovered that his time at the observatory sometimes comes at the expense of his beautiful wife, Vicky. When the neglected spouse becomes influenced by an eccentric neighbor into believing in the power of astrology, she subscribes to a weekly horoscope from a phony seer, the appropriately named Margaret Sybill. When the beautiful Mrs. Whitley reads that a new dream man will be coming soon into her life, she assumes he's taken the form of Lloyd Hunter, a handsome and dashing foreign correspondent who doubles as the neighborhood air raid warden. A frantic Bill realizes that he's going to have to keep closer track of his earthbound heavenly body if he's going to keep the prediction from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In the middle of Nowheresville lives 16-year-old Mike who wants out of his crappy life - permanently! Spending his time devising ways to do himself in, he considers the fatal brain tumor in his head as a godsend. That changes when he meets a girl and falls in love for the first time - without even knowing what love is.
A rising prosecutor spends the night at a rival defense attorney's home. Awakened next to his murdered body, things go from bad to worse when she's asked to prosecute his murder.