A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Jack Benny, his finances at a low ebb, watches a newsstand for a friend and picks up a young lady customer, equally broke.
Caught in a 5th Avenue traffic jam, as they are riding in side-by-side taxicab and limousine, Jack Benny (Jack Benny) and Helen Hunt (Francetta Malloy), engage in conversation that leads to a hasty marriage. It isn't long before Benny is calling on the justice-of-peace again to sever the marriage.
