When American businessman Wendell Armbruster goes to Italy to claim his father's body after a fatal car accident, he finds himself caught up in a seemingly endless procession of red tape - and the shock of finding out that his father had a mistress who also died in the crash. When the daughter of the mistress arrives to take her mother's body back to England, sparks fly. But when the parents' bodies disappear from the morgue, a search brings these two acrimonious foes together in an affair of mystery...and of the heart!