There's a box social coming up, and Curly asks Laurey if she'll be his date. Trouble is, Laurey thinks he's waited too long, and in a fit of pique accepts an offer from the boorish Jud instead. Meanwhile, Laurey's friend Ado Annie is also torn between two men: a cowboy named Will (Gene Nelson) and a foreign peddler, Ali Hakim. Both women struggle to know their own hearts before it's too late.
