Gruff Chicago newspaperman Ernie Souchak (John Belushi) is a guy who thinks communing with nature means sitting on a bench in Lincoln Park. Nell Porter (Blair Brown) is an ornithologist who's spent most of her life alone in the mountains studying birds. It's a case of the birds and the bees when a reluctant Souchak is sent to the Rocky Mountains to do a story on the reclusive birdhead.