 Nat Silver is a debonair and fabulously wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. So this slick sophisticate decides that he must learn how to arrange a good marriage in order to find himself a good match, and reinvents himself as a shadkhn (matchmaker). Not your traditional matchmaker, Nat sets off on his new venture, which he knows nothing about, in ascot and morning coat, and refuses to charge for his services, a policy which gets him picketed by the local shadkhonim. The East European shtetl mores meet New York sophistication in this urbane romantic comedy.