Telegram deliverer Daffy Duck is in a swamp. Unable to stop his hiccups, Daffy decides to seek medical help, in an old house belonging to a Dr. Jerkyl, who advertises his services on a neon sign atop his house.

Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer named Dan O’Mara. O’Mara is married and has children. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.