El gran día de la señorita Pettigrew

Miss Pettigrew, the daughter of a parson, has lived her entire life from house to house, acting as governess to "dreadful" children. At forty years old she, "timid and defeated", she has neither a penny nor a decent dress, she is unemployed and about to be evicted. An employment agency gives her what could be her last chance, but when she turns up at the luxurious apartment of the lady who hires her, she finds, not a mother of a family, but a young, platinum blonde beauty, wrapped in a spectacular jumpsuit. And the first thing she asks of her, in a hurry, is to help her get rid of a lover because she expects the imminent arrival of another. Thus begins a long day in which, hour after hour, the governess does not win for surprises: her new employer, Miss Delysia LaFosse, does not seem to have children, she is a singer in a nightclub, she has not only two lovers but three and the enters an unprecedented world of parties, glamor and adventures. To her own surprise, this "mature spinster with romantic ideals" finds herself abjuring her prudish principles and enthusiastically embracing a life without "morality", scandalous and even violent, where she paradoxically treats herself right for the first time. time. With a wisdom learned in the cinema and popular novels, she even manages to solve the most difficult wrongs.