Frenchman Cary Grant marries an American WAC stationed in Germany, but before the marriage can be consummated she is ordered back home. Things get both madcap and ribald with Grant in a wig as a WAC, trying to pass as the bride and thereby hitch a ride to the States. The ruse provides ground for some of Hawks' most fertile sexual comedy, but, as Robin Wood points out, the film also "uses its satire on the bureaucracy of the military machine to attack certain characteristic trends of modern America."