Joe Clay, a San Francisco public relations man who likes to drink, meets secretary Kirsten Arnesen, who happens to be a teetotaler, and it's a saloon mismatch from the get-go. After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, Kirsten is able to keep pace drinkwise with her husband and it's a downward spiral from there in this searing drama based on a TV drama first aired on Playhouse 90.