Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.

Colt Anderson est épuisé. Chaque aspect de sa vie quotidienne est devenu une corvée fastidieuse. Il ne se souvient pas de la dernière fois qu'il a pris un jour de congé ou, encore pire, de la dernière fois qu'il a ressenti l'abandon volontaire d'une femme. Et comme par hasard, pour son premier jour de congé depuis des lustres, il tombe sur une squatteuse sexy sur sa propriété, sans se douter que cette seule interaction va changer le cours

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"Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) was one of the most influential British designers of all time and he is widely regarded as Britain's first independent industrial designer. His works still look remarkably modern more than a century later. Like his contemporary William Morris, Dresser advocated for an 'honesty of materials', but unlike Morris he fully embraced industrial techniques, designing for the growing consumer market. Dresser's fascination with...