Chem lab supervisor Darliss Johnson has overseen the development of an artificial virus which avoids people but turns inanimate materials into purple mush. It spreads throughout their business complex and into the landaround, forcing all to evacuate.

CEO Clive Jarvis gives the order upon returning from abroad to save his company. He works closely with Darliss and her first assistant Lasaro in a desperate attempt to literally save the world itself.

With humorous foresight, Lasaro often drops clues about the compatibility between his two bosses, though Clive dates a starlet, one Miss D'Amour. When she comes to their evacuation site on a plane bringing supplies and a U. S. senator, we see that her impracticality does not mesh with Clive's rational nature.

On the other hand, the heroic trio's assiduous efforts pay off. They use a life-force recording Las made of himself and Darliss to control the virus. Clive dances with Darliss on the land renewed.