An aristocratic family is visited by the son of the patriarch’s old army batman. Having lost all his family the young man seeks a home with the man whose life his father had apparently saved. The patriarch’s family consists of an older son who is off making his own way in the world, a daughter who has been recently divorced and is bitter toward men and relationships, and a younger daughter who still has her naïveté and innocence intact. The young man proves to be quite a lady-killer… and a killer of virtually any living thing with merely the utterance of a wish… 