George Tracy and Charlie Sorel, both thirty-six years of age, are writers - a Paris novelist and Hollywood screenwriter, respectively - best friends, and partners in crime in skirt chasing Charlie is shot dead aboard a yacht during a party by filmmaker Sir Leopold Sartori after he catches Charlie fooling around with his wife, Rusty, Charlie s body which falls overboard and which is not found Sartori s act is despite he being a notorious womanizer himself Charlie s sparsely attended funeral service, at which George provides the eulogy, demonstrates how Charlie s womanizing ways negatively affected his so called friendships Staying at Charlie s Malibu beach house, George meets a beautiful young woman who seems to be suffering from amnesia, but is drawn to Charlie s house George initially believes she is one of Charlie s conquests, but she eventually comes to the realization and is able to convince George that she is Charlie reincarnated George ultimately believes it is God s divine retribution for Charlie to come back as an object of his own derision But together and individually, George and Charlie have to devise a way for Charlie to live in this new female body, George who has no money to support Charlie, and Charlie s estate which is bankrupt In addition, Charlie, who has always been a player, figures that she should be able to capitalize on her new womanhood, which includes using knowledge of her former indiscretions as a man, and getting back at Sir Leo But she may also be able to eke out a lucrative life as she becomes the object of affection of wealthy momma s boy, Bruce Minton III