Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.
Two CIA bunglers botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
