A hard-drinking American screenwriter living in France is starved of inspiration and has two days to deliver a finished script. He enlists the aid of his hard-pressed secretary to help him act out plot ideas, leading them through a succession of bizarre misadventures. Romantic comedy, starring William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Noel Coward and Tony Curtis.

Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been in Paris supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him finish on time.