Joeri Petrovian, a famous Russian ballet dancer attempts to defect to the West by hiding in the trunk of a Navy Officer’s car. Once inside the Commandant’s stately home, the daughter of the house, Nannie, persuades her fiancée, Boebie Bus to pretend to be her father in order to get rid of all callers. This task proves to be more difficult than it at first seemed, as more and more people arrive looking for Joeri and Boebie’s lies become more and more convoluted.