Noel Coward's comedy stars Helena Bonham Carter and Bill Nighy as a divorced couple who discover they are staying at the same hotel on the first night of their honeymoons with their new partners.

Elyot and Amanda realise that they are still in love with each other and should never have divorced. So they abandon their new spouses, Sibyl and Victor, and run off together. However, they soon find themselves caught up in the same violent arguments that originally plagued their stormy marriage.