This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.
Atacada por un pretendiente, Junie Moon (Liza Minnelli) ha quedado con el rostro y un brazo marcados para siempre. Al ser dada de alta del hospital, ella alquila una casa en la que decide convivir con otros dos pacientes muy especiales: Warren Palmer (Robert Moore), un discapacitado con inclinaciones homosexuales, y un epiléptico de nombre Arthur (Ken Howard), quien ve en ella algo más que una simple compañera.
Marvin Swift is a nebbishy schmuck who’s "a total failure at everything." Fired from his job at a brassiere factory, he then gets into a pointless argument with his sexy but ditzy fiancee who tells him to go to hell. Instead, he does the next best thing. He meets the devil in a boiler room. And the devil’s a she. A very sexy she named Lucibel sans the traditional horns and pointy tail because "that’s terribly passé, today its mod." Touched that Marvin is such a screw-up, she offers to help him but not, she says, because she wants his soul, but because she wants to make him happy. So she grants him a wish with no strings attached.
