Hollywood version of Terence Rattigan's play in which both David Niven and Wendy Hiller won Oscars. Niven plays a bogus war hero, Major Pollock, staying at a small hotel on the south coast of England where the dining room is full of lonely people who all sit at separate tables. The hotel is run by Hiller who resolutely devotes herself to others. When an American writer's ex-wife arrives everyone's lives begin to unravel.