Audrey Ames是一位有进取心的记者，试图从伊利诺斯州实验农场偶然发现的巨型蝗虫那里得到独家新闻。她努力拯救芝加哥，尽管军队掩盖了一切。

Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife, Pauline,