Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of WWII.
海伦(卡洛·朗白 Carole Lombard 饰)拥有美丽的外貌和善良的个性,但唯一的缺点就是喜欢撒谎。肯尼斯(弗莱德·麦克莫瑞 Fred MacMurray 饰)是海伦的丈夫,同时也是一名律师,和海伦恰恰相反,肯尼斯是一个非常实事求是的男人,绝对不会给满口谎言之人做辩护。 为了补贴家用,海伦瞒着肯尼斯偷偷找了一份做秘书的工作,哪知道她的雇主是一个打色狼,在他企图对海伦图谋不轨之后,海伦打了他。哪知道第二天竟然传来了他的死讯,海伦不幸成为了最大嫌疑人遭到了逮捕。肯尼斯决定为自己的妻子辩护,可是面对丈夫的质问,海伦又开始不受控制的鬼话连篇起来。
Earl知道Clay和其妻Amanda有染,于是制造自己被谋杀的假像,嫁祸于Clay。Clay尽力掩饰此事,并结束与Amanda的关系。正当此事未完,他又被怀疑与近日多宗谋杀案有关;究竟这是谁布下的陷阱?
On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob