Cary Grant plays Nickie Ferrante, a handsome playboy who meets Deborah Kerr who plays Terry McKay, a beautiful nightclub singer who meet aboard a cruise going to New York and fall in love. However...

Cary Grant plays Nickie Ferrante, a handsome playboy who meets Deborah Kerr who plays Terry McKay, a beautiful nightclub singer who meet aboard a cruise going to New York and fall in love. However both are engaged to other people and are leaving to meet them. Both in love with each other, they make a pact to meet at the top of the Empire State Building in six months. The day has come to meet each other yet Terry has an accident. Nickie fears the worse, either she has married someone else or does not love him anymore. Only time will tell if Nickie will learn the truth about the troubles Terry has suffered and reunite with her or that fate has passed them by and their destiny have already been decided.