It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Psychiatrist Sam Foster takes on a colleague's patient, talented art student Henry, who announces his intention to kill himself at midnight on Saturday. As Sam pursues Henry, hoping to save him, the world around him begins to fracture and distort and Sam's mad world impinges on Henry's rational one. What's the meaning of the flashbacks to a car accident on the Brooklyn Bridge? Why are dead people seemingly alive? A hallucinatory New York becomes a dark, fractured, dislocated landscape. An intrig find out more...