New York City millionaire socialite Brad Sexton turns his
marriage's 10th anniversary party into a real estate development pitch for "The Holy Land", a theme park modeled after
Biblical lore. One of the display's special effects catches a federal judge's wardrobe on fire. Furious, Brad's wife Caroline decides to divorce him. Meanwhile, Brad's
accountant Bob Lachman is stealing the Sextons' millions and filing false tax returns. The money manipulations catch the attention of the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and field agent Frank Hall demands to meet Bob and Brad to bring the obligations up to date. Bob makes Brad his scapegoat, since all the tax returns where Bob committed fraud are in Brad's name. Bob admits this in Brad's phone call to him as Bob flees in a taxicab. Fearing that the Sextons could be fleeing, Hall orders the freezing of their assets as Brad calls his lawyer Phil Kleinmann for help. IRS Inspector Derek Lester joins Hall to serve the warrant and bring in the Sextons. Brad flees, steals a cab, and happens to pick up Caroline. The Sextons escape from Hall, Lester, and the police and leave New York. They crash the cab into a swamp and are forced to spend that night sleeping rough, covered in mud. The next day, they find themselves in
Intercourse, Pennsylvania, a small
Lancaster County-area community of Old Order
Amish. After stealing clothes, they masquerade as Jacob and Emma, a family's expected cousins from Missouri. Samuel and Levinia Yoder, along with their sons and daughters, make the pair at home. Gradually, the pair learns to fit in. Brad, with his knowledge of real estate values, helps Samuel's future son-in-law Henner buy some land, and Caroline's knowledge of fashion helps their conservative
ordnung relax their colorless dress code. Hall and Lester then find the stolen taxicab after suffering the same cow-related accident. The Sextons rediscover why they fell in love in the first place, largely through their efforts of helping others rather than themselves. As Samuel and Levinia's daughter Rebecca exchanges vows with Henner, the ceremony is interrupted by the state police, Hall, and Lester as the real Jacob and Emma show up. The Sextons are exposed and
extradited back to New York. At the courthouse, Phil shows up informing Judge Joan Northcutt about some new information that puts the case on hold. Explaining his absence that involved some Germans wanting to buy one of Brad's projects, Phil reveals that he found Bob in
Zürich and had him extradited back to the United States. Bob is hauled into the courtroom by police officers to face the Sextons. He defends his actions to Brad by claiming that he was in debt. While thanking a restrained Bob for saving their marriage, Brad then punches Bob for framing him. Northcutt drops the charges against the Sextons. Returning to Intercourse, Brad and Caroline beg Samuel and Levinia for forgiveness, to no avail. As they turn to leave, Samuel then reveals that he and Levinia knew the whole time of the ruse. They put up with it because it was planting season and they needed the extra help. Brad offers to give his watch as a present only to be told that the Amish cannot accept gifts, only trades. He then trades the watch for Big John, a Belgian horse. During the credits amidst the bloopers, Brad and Caroline come across the same cow and the land they crashed into, which is now up for sale. As Bob plans to make use of the land, Caroline reveals that she is pregnant with their first child. ==Cast==