Young Nicholas Newton has blonde good looks and a sunny disposition, which serve him well as he strives to serve his young aristocratic master in his new position as Valet...to youthful darkly handsome Lord Hendon Moncreiff. The young Lord, though warm and generous, can be troubled with dark moods and secret yearnings for the love of another man. As master and servant go through the daily rituals of dressing and dressing, an intimacy grows between them that simmers from warm friendship to heated passion and all the complications in the society of early 1900s Edwardian London.