The small Channel Island of Herm is just one-and-a-half miles long by half-a-mile wide. Situated three miles from Guernsey there are no cars on the island, but a number of people live and work there. In 1949 Herm’s lease was bought by Major Peter Wood, who set about developing a community there.
A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep.
In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative.