A very young Tom Hanks stars as David, an up and coming ad executive in Chicago who plays hard and works hard. He has just been promoted to a window office, and  everything seems to be going perfectly until his father, played by Jackie Gleason, announces that his mother, played by Eva Marie Saint, has moved out. Jackie Gleason plays himself - a cigar chewing, joking, clothing salesman who has lost his edge and can no longer adapt to new sales methods and is losing clients until the firm eventually fires him.