Anita (Loretta Young) falls for magician The Great Arturo (David Niven) and dumps her fiancé Donald Barnes (Broderick Crawford) to become the magician's wife and stage assistant. After a few years traveling the world with non-stop performances, Anita longs for the quiet life in a country farmhouse. Unnerved by her husband's flirting, tired of traveling and concerned about Arturo's dangerous escape stunts, Anita pulls a "disappearing act" of her own to force her husband to understand her feelings.