A young poet gets the brilliant idea to live in a department store, hiding by day, and courting his muse by night where it's quiet, and he can have all his needs met. But, to his surprise, he learns his brilliant idea's not exactly original; there are other residents who dodge the night watchmen, and who keep their existence secret at all costs. And one of them is a young woman who wants to leave, but is too frightened to go. And Charles finds that he wants to show her the larger world outside.
Unos días antes del estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), a Cluny (Jones), una joven apasionada de la fontanería, la envía su tío a servir como criada en una rica mansión inglesa. La vida como sirvienta es dura, pero sus días los alegra un refugiado checo (Boyer), invitado de los dueños de la mansión, que ha huido del nazismo. Ambos se identifican como "almas desplazadas", pero ella no quiere nada romántico con su agradable nuevo amigo
Jeanne trabaja en una sombrerería. La envían al palacio de Luis XV con un sombrero para Madame de Pompadour, luego conoce a un músico en el parque y se enamoran, a pesar de que la adivina anuncia que se hará rica y vivirá en el lujo.
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
