The countess has a problem: her son is in love with the professor's daughter. Both are poor and this marriage would be a financial failure. Love can overcome all and they decide they will wait.

The Endicotts take an American girl, an exotic dancer down on her luck in Rome, and try to give her a new lease on life.

Grandpa Pruitt's Iowa "horse-trading" talents come in handy when his family faces eviction because their Roman apartment building is about to be torn down.