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...

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Sonny is a talented artist, who's not getting the breaks he needs, that is until Terpsichore, the muse of dance, arrives through a portal, a local mural near the town beach, to inspire him. Instead of just kicking his ass into gear to put together a dance show, largely a show piece for the multi-talented Newton John, she falls in love with him, resulting in her being recalled through the portal, hotly pursued by Sonny, prior to engaging in an ethical debate with a disapproving Zeus and Mnemosyne find out more...