Carol Bartlett, an Egyptologist, desperate to find a job in her specialty, agrees to take up any worthy cause, but all her efforts are in vain. Finally, with the help of a friend, she manages to get a job as a secretary in two places at once: in the morning she works with the stunningly handsome actor Claude Barrymore, and in the afternoon with mathematics professor Kenneth Lombard. Both of them - the artist spoiled by female attention, and the reserved mathematician - could not resist the girl’s charm. Finding herself between two fires, Carol did not immediately decide who to give her heart to...