Leslie Howard directs this British comedy drama that follows a group of female soldiers during the Second World War. The film chronicles the training and later employment of an assortment of women who travel to an army camp to become members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. They include the daughter of a serving officer (Joyce Howard), a waitress (Joan Gates), a Czech refugee (Lilli Palmer), an ex-dance teacher (Barbara Waring) and a party girl (Jean Gillie).

Jeannie's father has turned her into a household drudge. She cooks and cleans and does the washing. She is not allowed to go to the cinema. Her father dies and with the money he left her she goes on holiday to Vienna. She meets Stanley an inventor of household appliances. Jeannie meets a Count and lavishes all her money on him. They become engaged but he leaves when he finds out that there is no more money. Jeannie gets a job as housekeeper in Glasgow. Stanley comes to visit her and persuades her to marry him -and she will have her own washing machine.Large flexible cast