Millie can't escape a life dogged by romantic complications - Millie is weary of living with her sister, Esmi who is indulging in clandestine meetings with a man whom she knows only as Wally and Esmi's husband Leo, who pines for Millie. So she moves in with Poppy, a risqui star at Tapper's Supper Room. But Poppy's married lover, MP Henry Granger, drags Millie's life into an even more fraught and deadly maelstrom of love.