Sparks fly in Glasgow, Scotland in 1910, when upper middle class and highly educated barrister, Benedict Cochran, falls for a shopkeeper’s daughter, whose family he considers to be well beneath his station in life. He does everything in his power to kill the strong attraction he feels for the beautiful Sophie Sullivan, who has learned all of her manners from self-improvement books and her manner of speaking from elocution lessons, However Sophie has her own plans that will take her to New York, in pursuit of a betrothal to an American millionaire. Both families get caught up in the intrigue in this romantic turn of the last century light-hearted tale of the out-dated class system that governs peoples lives, and strict social etiquette which must be very closely be adhered to.