A sensitive man named Bob Handman (Brian Bedford), who lives alone in his apartment, encounters whom he believes to be his ideal woman, Doreen (Julie Sommars), at a classical-music concert.

Because he is so unworldly, he asks his best friend Ted (James Farentino) along to the date for moral support.

The movie ends with Bob sitting in a darkened room, listening to the aria from Madame Butterfly.

As he sits in the dark crying, the record skips repeatedly over the scratched aria.

In October 1965 Hunter announced he wanted to use unknown stars and director, and the writer Tom Ryan had not done a script before.