A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.