At the last minute, single mother Antonia puts her seven-year-old son on the bus which will take him to France for a vacation with his father and then turns up late for her work as a chambermaid in a luxury hotel. Most of the other staff are hostile over her casual attitude except one girl who, finding her in tears in the changing room, is sympathetic. Among her problems, Antonia says she has not been with a man for years, which her co-worker advises her to put right at the first opportunity.