 Tycoon John P. Merrick is startled to see an effigy of himself hanging on the front page of the New York Times, courtesy of union organizers at Neeley s Department Store, which Merrick didn t even know he owned. On a sudden impulse, he goes undercover there as a shoe salesman. Soon he s so involved in the lives of his fellow employees (especially one young couple and a delightful single woman his own age) as to forget his original purpose. But his two lives are on a collision course...