The Grim Reaper pays a visit to a family of wealthy socialites though he is not there on his usual business. Intent on entering the human world for a three-day holiday, Death takes the form of a visiting prince and assumes all the pleasures and pains that go with flesh and blood existence. Experiencing, for the first time, all that humanity has to offer, he becomes enamored of Grazia, a woman both in love with life and infatuated with death. But soon, in Death's absence, life is running dangerously and unexplainably rampant and knowing that he must return to his eternally grim world, he conceives a plan involving Grazia to allow him to take back some of what he has learned and yearned for. © 1934 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.