Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he must keep the true nature of his relationship with Elle under wraps at all costs.

• Universal Pictures
• Julian Blaustein Productions Ltd.
• Rod Steiger
• Claire Bloom
• Judy Geeson
• Peggy Ashcroft
• Paul Rogers
• Lynn Farleigh
• Elizabeth Spriggs
• Sheila Allen