An overlooked engineer is sent to Alaska to scope out an eccentric scientist’s claim that capturing lightning can be a new source of renewable energy.

A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new roomer becomes infatuated with one of the husbands.

Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.