影片讲述当马普尔小姐从乡下来到伦敦度假时，在伯特伦旅馆找到了她怀念已久的旧式装潢与无可挑剔的服务。然而，这优雅的背后却藏匿着险恶。

In Praise of Love is the first part of a 1973 double-bill play by the English playwright Terence Rattigan (the second half being Before Dawn, a burlesque of the opera Tosca)- it was the penultimate play he wrote and was inspired by the true-life relationship between Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall and follows her illness and death.