Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of WWII.

　　一个年轻的窃贼为了躲避黑帮的追捕躲进了一栋房子，房子的屋主是一个身患重病的女孩。两人在相处中产生了感情，男孩一直鼓励女孩要勇敢活下去，没有料到的是男孩不知自己已经身患癌症，会比女孩更早离去。