伊利莎（温蒂•希勒Wendy Hiller 饰）是伦敦街头的卖花女。她相貌清丽，可惜家境贫寒，满口乡音。她叫卖鲜花的声音飘荡在街头，甜美动听，传到语言学家希金斯教授（Leslie Howard 莱斯利•霍华德 饰）那里。教授非常欢喜，觉得伊利莎是个可塑之材。
伊利莎觉得这是个改变命运的好机会，于是找到希金斯。皮克林是希金斯（Scott Sunderland 史葛特•桑德兰饰）朋友，他暗中打赌，如果希金斯能把伊利莎调教成贵妇出席半年后的宴会，那么培养费就由他承担。
从每一个发音开始纠正，专业的训练让伊利莎慢慢脱胎换骨。然而伊利莎得知自己只是一个赌注时，抑制不住失望和气愤……

It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent to engage in an archaeological dig. When his students discover that the professor is the man responsible for smuggling a number of enemies of the Nazi state out of Germany, they enthusiastically join him in his fight. But things are complicated when one of his students brings a mysterious woman into their circle, a woman who is secretly working for the Gestapo.

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