Aspiring actress Cicely Tyler (Margaret Sullavan) marries ambitious newsman Christopher Tyler (James Stewart) but their life together is interrupted when he is assigned to a good position in his newspaper's Rome bureau, and she stays behind, confiding to her rich secret admirer, Tommy Abbott (Ray Milland), that she is pregnant. Separations, reunions and reconciliations follow as Cicely and Christopher struggle to balance their romance and their careers.<ref name="tcmover"/><ref name=amg>Erickson, Hal [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:103858~T0 Plot synopsis (Allmovie)]</ref>