Meet David Cartier, a self-made genius who dreams of playing viola for the London Symphony Orchestra, as much as anything to spite his disinterested older sister who is Leader of that august body. It is not entirely a good thing that at the tender age of 18, he has a house of his own and an incurable magnetism for a certain type of woman because things will have to change if he is to take up the scholarship he's won to The Royal College of Music and it seems uncertain that he can ever overcome his natural instincts and desires to concentrate on anything so prosaic as a stable profession.