Sheila Browning works as a reporter for a daily newspaper. She is happy with her life: her career was a success, but everything else... As they say, everything is never good: after a short-lived marriage with the brilliant journalist Arthur Ashby, she became disillusioned with men. Her ex-husband, whom his mother abandoned as a child for the sake of a ghostly dream of becoming a film star, in his turn is prejudiced against women who strive to make a career at any cost. And eight years after the divorce, fate brings them together again. They resist the newly flared up feeling, afraid of getting burned again, but love conquers fear...