
The young Princess Anna arrives in Rome on an official visit. Her days are scheduled by the minute - receptions, visits to factories, interviews... in general, boredom! She is just a girl, she wants freedom and runs away from the palace to the streets where the citizens of the Eternal City walk, sing and kiss.
Alas, shortly before her escape, the doctor gives her a shot of sleeping pills and the princess falls asleep on a bench. And passing by is an American journalist Joe Bradley, who is returning home after an evening at the card table. Early in the morning, on the editor's assignment, he has to be at a press conference with Princess Anne, whom he has never seen in his eyes....