影片由一系列音樂片斷構成，由擅長歌舞巨片的馬克·桑德里區執導。其中每一首插曲都以美國的節假日為線索，又都巧妙地集中到一對情敵的身上。本片獲1943年第15屆奧斯卡最佳編劇和最佳音樂獎提名！一家開設在公路邊的旅館，兩個年輕的合伙人哈迪和海諾沃同時愛上了一位姑娘。海諾沃（由著名舞蹈家弗雷德·阿斯泰爾飾）盡管在愛情的追逐中連連占先，但最終還是敗給了哈迪（由著名歌星賓·克羅斯比飾）。哈迪是位酷愛音樂的懶散的人，他退休回到新英格蘭農村，每逢節假日，他的農場就成了娛樂總會……

這部電影探討了社會思想中根深蒂固的階級和地位障礙，強調了一種永遠無法實現的愛情敘事。還是可以？

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

 故事發生在巴黎阿拉伯人和猶太人聚居區，那里有許多妓院。上了年紀、體弱多病的猶太婦女羅莎，負責照顧一群妓女所生的孩子，而她自己過去也曾當過妓女，并在納粹集中營度過一段可怕的時光。影片主要表現羅莎夫人與她所照顧的一個阿拉伯男孩令人感動的關系。