New York, 1933. World War I veteran Burt Berendsen keeps a small clinic and helps war crippled poor souls like himself. One day he and his best friend and coworker, attorney Harold Woodman, are hired by the daughter of their former commander to perform an autopsy on her suddenly deceased father, who has just arrived from Europe and was about to give a speech to a gathering of fellow soldiers. Burt and Harold had no idea how far this case would take them, and that they would meet their soul mate Valerie, a French hospital nurse with whom they had spent an unforgettable time in Amsterdam at the end of the war.