Liza Elliot, neurotic editor of Allure magazine, seeks psychiatric help to solve her problems with men, her past and her indecisiveness. Her psychiatric session lead to three musical dream sequences, including: Glamour Dream: Oh Fabulous One/Huxley/One Life to Live/Girl of the Moment / Wedding Dream: Mapleton High Chorale/This is New/The Princess of Pure Delight / Circus Dream: The Greatest Show on Earth/Dance of the Tumblers/The Best Years of His Life/Tschaikowsky/The Saga of Jenny / Childhood Dream: My Ship.

Captain Bumerli, a cowardly Swiss Army pastry chef, finds himself in the midst of battle and flees the scene. He escapes up a trellis and ends up in the bedroom of Nadina, the fiancee of a war hero. Nadina helps him avoid capture by the Bulgarians and later helps him escape. A year later Bumerli returns to win Nadina's love and prevent her loveless marriage to Major Spiridoff.