animated short simultaneously follows a woman preparing for a bath and her downstairs neighbour rehearsing with his string quartet.
[5] Set in London back in the late 1930s a middle aged woman and an elderly man were getting into a lift he gets off on the second floor and she gets off on the third floor, as each gets into their own flats she was walking towards her bathroom and she run the water in her bathtub and she goes over to a scale model of the Titanic completing it with the fourth smokestacks and strings.
Meanwhile inside the his flat downstairs from hers he was preparing food for catering before his quartet members arrive in a taxi cab.
she is in the bathtub relaxing thinking about the titanic at night and all the people dancing on board the ship and she was interrupted by her door buzzer and she got out of her bath to go see who it is and she opened the door and she saw the elderly man who lives downstairs and she saw the tool box in his hand and she somehow now realizes that something needs to be fixed so she lets him in and he makes his way to the bathroom to fix the hole in her bathroom floor.
Meanwhile, back in his flat the chandelier breaks and falls from the ceiling landing on the table with the catering of fish and fruits, after which the other musicians packed up their instruments and headed for the Cab and left and even with a damaged kitchen table and with a chandelier all over the place he continues playing his violin all by himself and she is now back in her relaxing bath Tilby also appeared in an NFB short film, Wendy Tilby with Strings, talking about the creative process behind the film.