Plot Summary:American Walter Elbertson, in his late teens, is feeling lost within his family of overachievers. Thirty-something Englishwoman Lila Fisher is emotionally repressed. The two meet on their respective vacations in Spain, when, on the spur of the moment, Walter decides to ditch his overly regimented cycling tour group and join the bus tour group of which Lila is a part. They hardly speak to each other during the first few days, and when they do, they make each other nervous since each is scared of life. In spite of their fear of life or largely because of it, they enter into a friendship that blossoms into a romance, however rocky the road to that romance is. Out of circumstance, they abandon the bus tour and travel together through Spain on their own. Their relationship is put to the test of outside scrutiny when they meet and have an extended stay with a Spanish Duke.
埃尔伯(蒂姆斯·伯特姆斯 Timothy Bottoms 饰)虽然是一个年轻人,却总是缺少年轻人身上展现的那种朝气,对周围的一切,埃尔伯都提不起兴趣,在学校里的功课亦是十分的糟糕。在暑假期间,埃尔伯参加了学校组织的一场骑车旅游活动,活动进行到一半,埃尔伯终于无法忍受漫长而又劳累的旅途,选择临阵脱逃,登上了一辆大巴。 在大巴上,埃尔伯邂逅了名为费舍尔(玛吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith 饰)的中年女子,让埃尔伯百思不得其解的时,在这个乏味无聊的世界列,费舍尔小姐成为了唯一能够吸引他注意力的存在。两人结伴而游,无所不谈,在此过程中,埃尔伯渐渐爱上了这个年长的女人。