Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.

一名见习厨师同一位餐厅老板坠入爱河。他们父亲是商业死对头，母亲却是秘密的闺中好友。

　古德森（杰克·莱蒙 Jack Lemmon 饰）和麦克斯（沃尔特·马修 Walter Matthau 饰）是从小玩到大的好友，虽然两人都已经步入了古稀之年，但他们之间的情谊却没有丝毫的改变。某日，一位名叫爱丽儿（安·玛格丽特 Ann Margret 饰）的女子成为了两人的邻居，美丽优雅的爱丽儿很快就吸引了古德森和麦克斯的注意，他们都为爱丽儿所倾倒。 　　很显然，爱丽儿更喜欢的是古德森，这让麦克斯感到十分不快，因为古德森那已经过世的妻子，是自己曾经喜欢过的女人，麦克斯认为，这一次，该轮到古德森主动退出了。最终，古德森决定成全麦克斯的感情，他故意羞辱和伤害爱丽儿，致使爱丽儿最终和麦克斯走到了一起。