A bookish historian is married to a steely Southern belle who raises horses, an animal that he doesn't care for. However, the cute young neighbor girl doesn't feel that way about him and makes no bones about letting him know it.

琪拉（丽塔·海华斯 Rita Hayworth 饰）是天神宙斯的女儿，一天，她违反了天庭条例私自下凡，遇到了郁郁不得志的艺术家丹尼（拉里·帕克斯 Larry Parks 饰）。在琪拉的帮助下，丹尼得以同一名富商会面，富商非常欣赏丹尼的才华，决定资助他开设一家夜总会。
终于，琪拉向丹尼坦白了自己的真实身份，并且告诉对方，自己很快就要回到天上去了。早已经深深爱上琪拉的丹尼苦苦挽留，而琪拉也早已经动了凡心。夜总会开幕当晚，琪拉带着自己的姐妹们现身夜总会，造成了轰动，这是琪拉能够留给丹尼最后的礼物了。琪拉离开后，丹尼非常非常的伤心，他还能有机会与琪拉重逢吗？

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?