Desperate to improve his luck with women, London schoolteacher Colin enlists his artist roommate, Tom, to help drag a brass bed back to their flat. But their fun soon ends when a young woman from out of town enters their London world.
Abandoned by her sailor boyfriend and her man-hungry mother (Dora Bryan), pregnant Jo (Rita Tushingham) befriends a kind-hearted gay man (Murray Melvin), and gradually becomes a woman.
A group of friends think they find an easy score at an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the owners, an elderly couple, come home early, the tables are suddenly turned.
An aspiring fashion designer is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something darker.