Travel to the Beauregard Hotel where the eccentric guests all share one common trait
- loneliness. There's Major Pollack (David Niven) who hides a dark secret behind a polished military veneer; Sibyl Railton-Bell (Deborah Kerr) a shy neurotic old maid who lacks the courage to break away from her domineering mother; John Malcolm (Burt Lancaster) a disenchanted writer who drowns his bitterness in a pool of alcohol; & Ann Shankland (Rita Hayworth) whose narcissism masks a deep fear of growing old alone & unloved. In one emotional evening these four unhappy misfits will bare their innermost secrets... & change each other's lives forever.