Out of costume, Charlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, somewhat drunk, visits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admirers: the band leader, one of the musicians, and now Charlie.。The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography professor, devastated. Directionless, he assumes the identity of another man as the gardener of a Portuguese estate, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the landlady, entering a new life that does not belong to him.。