Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist. 萝莉（乌比·戈德堡 Whoopi Goldberg 饰）是一位精明干练的财务分析师，虽然都说女性对于数字不如男性敏感，但萝莉强大的业务能力很显然能吊打她的大部分异性同行。可即便她是这样的优秀，在男人主导的华尔街中，萝莉依然感到无法施展拳脚，处处受到性别的限制，一怒之下，萝莉提出了辞职，并且将自己的房产抵押了出去，决定成立一间完全属于自己的公司。 在寻找投资人的过程中，萝莉屡屡受挫，很多人刚看到她的性别，就对她的能力产生了怀疑。在前同事莎莉（黛安娜·维斯特 Dianne Wiest 饰）的帮助之下，萝莉得到了和大主顾唐纳（伊莱·瓦拉赫 Eli Wallach 饰）见面的机会，能不能出人头地，全看这一次了。
