Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson (Roberts) along with Peter Brackett (Nolte) reluctantly join forces to find a train mess conspiracy and bite off more than they could chew while chasing the story and bickering along the way - and falling in love, despite the undeniable fact that he's many years old than she.Sabrina can be still an ambitious, gifted reporter willing to do whatever it takes to understand the facts regarding the train crash, which leads her to conflict, then reluctant venture, with fading star newsman Peter who works for a rival newspaper. He is her polar opposite: he awakens women, smokes cigars, and has just released his first novel. In their pursuit of the story, Sabrina and Peter clash all over - he subjects after he grabs her dipping, Sabrina to indecent exposure in front of a set of boy scouts.