Linda Gilman (Bette Davis) is a hard-boiled magazine editor who thinks she can do just fine without love -- even after her old flame, flippant foreign correspondent Carey Jackson (Robert Montgomery), is assigned to work for her. Accompanied by a pack of drop-dead-chic New York stylists, she hauls him off to Indiana to write up a typical small-town wedding -- an assignment she hopes he'll quit. But they soon make some surprising discoveries about the adorable young couple, and about their old romance, whose embers never really cooled.