An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

Grubi kapetan ruševna riječnog broda u istočnoj Africi udruži se s uštogljenom misionarkom u Prvom svjetskom ratu kako bi porazio njemačku topovnjaču.

Demotiviranom piscu Xavieru ukaže se prilika koja bi mu napokon mogla obrnuti lošu sreću, a on zna da ne smije zeznuti stvar.

Sometimes he feels a tugging in his shoulder, sometimes he thinks his kidneys are failing. Two weeks before his marriage to the beautiful Anne, junior architect Stefan seems to have gathered all the diseases in the world. Drawn from the stress of the wedding preparations, the hypochondriac is in top form. When he overhears a phone call from the family doctor, he mistakenly thinks he is a dead man. Now a substitute husband is needed for Anne.