影片改编自保罗·加利科同名畅销小说。20世纪50年代伦敦一位丧偶的家政女工（莱丝利·曼维尔 饰），因疯狂爱上一件迪奥高级定制连衣裙，并决心自己也要拥有一件，继而踏上了一场前往巴黎的冒险。而这趟旅程不仅将改变她的人生面貌，也将重塑迪奥的未来。
The film opens in a bleak police station where celebrated war correspondent Kate Rafter (Seagrove) faces questions from a psychiatrist, Dr Shaw (Kurylenko), as they work through the painful events of Rafter’s life. A horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother (Steed) have brought a haunted Rafter home to Herne Bay, a place she believed she had escaped forever. Her resentful sister (Friel) has not made her sister welcome and her forbearing husband Paul (Miles) fails to broker peace. Whilst packing up her mother’s belongings from her childhood home, Rafter comes to believe there is something strange and terrifying happening in the house next door.
