在这部罗曼史剧情/爱情片中,一个年轻人不顾家人的反对要和一名女子结婚，家人对此束手无策。于是，在新年的午夜，他们让年轻人去到主教汤姆·阿姆斯特朗（Gavin Gordon 饰演）的家中，听汤姆讲述他年轻时的罗曼史，希望能对他有所启发。
那一年，汤姆28岁，他在科尼柳斯（Lewis Stone 饰演）举办的派对上认识了歌剧女伶丽塔·卡瓦利尼（嘉宝 饰演）。丽塔的生活做派令很多人看不惯，而丽塔本人也不相信爱情和婚姻，认为那是庸俗的情感。但直到她和汤姆在房间内不期而遇，丽塔开始明白爱情为何物……
Young Harry is in love and wants to marry an actress, much to the displeasure of his family. Harry thinks that Bishop Armstrong knows nothing about love so Armstrong tells him the story of Rita and himself. Rita was an Opera Star singing in New York who was at a party given by Cornelius. Armstrong was a 28 year old rector. He fell for Rita when he saw her and after six weeks he wanted to marry her. Naive as he was, he thought that all of Rita's "relationships" were in the distant past, but Rita lives for the moment and knows that she can never marry Armstrong.
少人提及的表演中的闪光。关于《Romance》的二三事。
