Beautiful Clare Hemsley (Peggy Cummins) and her father Victor (Ronald Squire) are swindlers working the sophisticated hotels of the French Riviera. They pose as a newly married couple before Victor mysteriously disappears each time with the family savings, leaving a sobbing and penniless Clare destitute. She then makes the most of the financial contributions from the sympathetic guests and distressed hoteliers. Their scam is working fine until Clare meets and falls in love with Terence Winch (Terence Morgan), an agent from the British Treasury who spends his days spying on delinquent tax payers. Clare wants to give up her life on the Riviera and return to England for a more settled life. However her father persuades her to embark on one last scheme, to sell the hotel they are staying to one of Britain's best known tax dodgers (James Hayter), with hilarious consequences...
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