Oh, the boredom of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, aristocratic Linda Radlett, her sisters and Cousin Fanny fantasize about the perfect lover, but Mr Right proves hard to find. Linda must face years with Tony, the stuffy Tory MP, and handsome but humourless communist Christian, before finding real passion with Fabrice de Sauveterre in war-torn Paris...