A post WW2 spin on Beauty and the Beast. Beatrice Post, is the daughter of an elite York land historian. She lives a nomadic lifestyle at the end of the war due to her home and community being torn apart by the Nazis. Her father accepts a fact checking position for her in Boston with a middle aged millionaire inventor. With hints of Shakespeare's Beatrice, and post war English pride, can these two starkly different hearts ever hope for a love that is timeless?