Carla is a secretary and very good at her job, she's also deaf and the butt of her mysogonistic colleagues. When it is decided she needs an assistant Carla is outraged but when her help turns out to be Paul, an ex-thief, she sees the opportunity to level the playing field. All is well until Paul asks her to do something for her, a considerably more dangerous undertaking involving the criminal underworld, and though Carla agrees, her new found empowerment means she's determined not to come out a find out more...

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...

In an unnamed European town, in an unspecified era, live Cynthia and Evelyn. Every day Evelyn cycles to Cynthia’s chateau to work as a lowly maid and every day the cruel, vindictive Cynthia inflicts countless sad find out more...