Las de la vie citadine, un avocat new-yorkais et son épouse s'installent dans une ferme dans la petite communauté de Hooterville. Un changement radical de vie qui s'avère bien difficile...

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.