For 16 years Miss Bentley has actually been investing April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist dad has actually recently died and the just other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. After that Major Wilshaw gets here. He recommends they satisfy for cocktails and also Miss Bentley stands him up-- not even thinking about it-- as she assists the brand-new nanny of an Italian family members settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American that has left of completing school in Switzerland, is tired as well as discovers some amusement in flirting with the major, whose sex drive is stired up for the very first time since before the great battle. And also Miss Bentley currently finds more concerning the significant to admire than his ears.