Bruce Carter, fired from a teaching job at a prep school and blackballed in the region, lands a job in Belgium teaching American History for three years. He returns to the United States when his contract expires, a drift in a world that neither wants him or his skills and intelligence. Low on money he moves in with his widowed aunt and accepts a part-time job doing menial chores around a swanky Inn that caters to the international jet set, a desperate move for a 50-year-old man with a PhD degree. His boss senses he has talent, gives him a pay raise and lends him out to a highly successful...