여행지 피렌체에서 ‘전망 좋은 방’을 루시에게 양보한 조지는 충동적이고 열정적인 몽상가. 그녀의 약혼자는 여성을 예술품처럼 소유하려는 보수적인 세실. 관습과 자유로운 삶 사이에서 갈등하며 진정한 사랑을 선택하려는 루시. 고지식한 사촌 샬롯의 가이드 없이 그녀는 지도 밖으로의 여행을 시작한다.
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
A wounded member of a rebel terrorist organisation is tended by an English nurse. She is imprisoned, interrogated, then released to face another form of interrogation.
1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.