第4077机动部队外科医院陷于朝鲜战争中期。在他们所处环境的帮助下，他们不得不自娱自乐。医生、护士、管理人员和士兵喜欢恶作剧和复仇，他们经常想方设法让战时生活变得可以忍受。

A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.

In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?