A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. Based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

It's the late nineteenth century. Philip Carey, a failed aspiring artist, has instead turned to the path laid out for him, using a trust to attend medical school in London. That failure and having a club foot has made him self-conscious. It is arguably because she treats him poorly that he becomes obsessed with poor, brash tea room waitress, Mildred Rogers. That obsession continues as Mildred comes in and out of his life, she only paying him any attention if it suits her own needs and wants. That obsession is also in spite of other women showing him interest. The primary question becomes if anything can help him break that obsessive bond he has of her.—Huggo