Julia has expectations of happiness - she is about to be married to Francis.
An actor, in every sense of the word, Francis Tyte has left an unhappy trail of disappointed, poorer and lonely women across the south of England. Believing he brings light into their lives, he helps himself to trifling sums. But people always seem to get upset about such little things. As the wedding of Francis and Julia draws closer, Francis begins to feel pursued by his past, by the women he has wronged . .