梨园子弟小陈（陈勋奇 饰）生出来是个可爱活泼的孩子，却因长辈的颟顸致令失聪。此后他的世界充满宁静，漫画成为小陈唯一的伙伴。因兴趣使然，小陈成年后投入漫画创作，不过他的作品远落后于时代，退稿与滞销成为家常便饭。社长气急败坏，不过还是决定给小陈一次机会，将自己精心策划的亡命鸳鸯系列交给小陈续作。在此期间，小陈认识了夜总会上班的女孩仙人掌（倪淑君 饰）。当然他们的初识并不美好，各种各样的小误会不断加深两人的矛盾，小陈甚至还将这个女对头画入漫画之中。然而随着时间的流逝，他们逐渐明了彼此的心意。只是，这感情的道路上依旧充满无数的考验……

Dumb Boy, a deaf and dumb, yet a brilliant and undiscovered cartoonist whose current publication has been gradually ignored by his readers. Consequently, the drop of the sale has promptly provoked his superior urging him to adopt a new style. During the midst of a mental struggle for new subjects, Cactus, a night club hostess, walked into his life, he silently and secretly falls in love with her. However, nurturing with an instinctive inferiority complex that had been fostered by his shortcomings all his life. Dumb Boy had not been able to get together his courage to reveal his love to Cactus.....