朝鲜战争期间,一家美军陆军医院负责医治盟军受伤官兵。愤世嫉俗的军医威布少校是主治医生,他与忠于职守的护士迈克卡拉中尉相爱,但是又相互讨厌。他们在救死扶伤的医务工作中理解战争的意义,并增加相互的了解Nurse Lt. Ruth McGara is assigned to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit near the front lines of the Korean War. There she meets and is roughly romanced by Major Jed Webbe, one of the unit's surgeons. Webbe is pushy and seems to care only for momentary pleasures, but McGara falls for him just the same. Their romance blossoms in the midst of overwhelming numbers of casualties, threats from the enemy and from the weather, and emergency evacuations that test the mettle of even a unit whose very name suggests quick mobility.