瑪利亞(Julie Andrews 飾)是一個年輕活潑的修女,喜歡在大自然下高聲歌唱,所以她常常忘記了修道院裡的規矩。院長認為瑪利亞並不屬於規矩嚴格的修道院。院長與眾嬤嬤商量後,決定安排瑪利亞到一位名叫特拉普(Christopher Plummer 飾)上校家當家庭教師。 上校的妻子去世多年,留下7個孩子,他要求對孩子嚴格管教。他告訴瑪利亞在他家的家庭教師都做不長久,都是因為孩子的惡作劇。瑪利亞果然也遭到了惡作劇,可是這位善良的老師並沒有告訴他們的父親,而是像個母親一樣照顧孩子,很快跟孩子打成一片。上校也漸漸在瑪利亞的引導下改變了對孩子們的態度。上校與瑪利亞之間發生了感情,他們完婚後回到了已被納粹佔領的奧地利,上校並不想為納粹辦事,一家人準備逃跑……
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children. She accepts but finds that knowing the parents, and developing a relationship with them for the entire pregnancy complicates the simple arrangement.