 Myron Breckinridge flies to Copenhagen to get a sex-change operation, becoming the beautiful Myra.Returning to America, Myra goes to her uncle Buck Loner's acting school, where she pretends to be her own widow and claims that it was Myron's will that she receive half the school, or $500,000; when Loner demurs, she asks that she be given a teaching job there to provide for herself.Buck reluctantly agrees, while launching an investigation into the veracity of Myra's claims.