才华横溢的地下导演Dan Ireland用敏锐细腻的笔触拍摄了这部温馨的家庭电影。Joan Plowright饰演Palfrey女士。她举止优雅, 丈夫去世后搬到伦敦居住。这样女儿的负担也轻些。 当她抵达Claremont酒店, 发觉酒店远没有广告介绍里那么漂亮,Plowright女士于是轻叹一句噢,天呀,失望情绪藏于她一贯的风度之间。她不得不和那些旅店里的怪客住在一起。她的生活变得越来越糟,直到她遇上了朝气蓬勃的年轻作家Ludovic。那时Plowright女士才意识到家庭关系是可以有选择的。 电影的故事情节很简单,也为观众熟悉。两位主角间的默契使得电影更富层次和感染力。Mrs. Palfrey, recently widowed after a long happy marriage, moves into a London residential hotel more lively and elegant on line than in fact. She determines to make the best of it among an odd assortment of people, and she particularly hopes her grandson, a London resident, will visit. When she slips on a walk and is aided by a penniless young writer, she invites him to dine at the Claremont and plays along when her dining mates assume he's her grandson. A friendship develops giving her a companion with whom she can talk about memories and poetry and giving him ideas and support for his writing. But what of her actual family? How it plays out is the movie's story.