Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) is bored with her royal life. While in Rome, she decides to run away for a few days to experience “real life”. When she sneaks off, she ends up falling asleep on a public bench due to a sleeping pill she took. In town to cover her appearance, reporter Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck), discovers her. At first, he does not recognize her. When news of her disappearance comes out though, he does. He does not let on that he knows who she is. Instead, he plans on getting a very juicy story by recording how she lets lose. Overtime, inevitably, the two begin to fall for one another. The more and more this happens, the more guilt Joe begins to have. Now he has to come clean and she has to make some serious life choices.