After a random school shootout leaves a scientists daughter and the shooter dead, he uses nano-robots to look into a psychopaths memories to find reasons for violence and a way to treat it.
C. C. Baxter(杰克·莱蒙 Jack Lemmon饰)是纽约一个大公司的小职员,他的单身公寓经常被公司的高层们用去当作幽会的场所,Baxter也因此获得不少升迁的机会。Baxter暗恋着公司的电梯女郎Fran Kubelik(雪莉·麦克雷恩 Shirley MacLaine 饰),这天他终于鼓起勇气约了她晚上一起去看一出戏剧。然而Baxter等了一晚却未见Fran的踪影,原…