大学生理查德(克里斯托弗·里夫 饰)在毕业典礼上遇到了一个老妇人,老妇人送给他一只金表,并表示等他回来。虽然他感到非常奇怪,但事情也不了了之了。8年后他成为一个著名的剧本作家,他为了寻找灵感来到了一家酒店度假,酒店历史悠久,在历史陈列室内他被一张女明星Elise(简·西摩尔 饰)的照片深深吸引住了,并认得她就是送金表的老妇人。原来老妇人在送于他金表的晚上已经离世了。而他通过梦境,回到时光倒流的70年前,发现自己竟与这名女明星又有一段美丽的爱情故事Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s, Elise McKenna. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, he manages, by self hypnosis, to travel back in time where he meets her. They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. Can their love outlast the immense problems caused by their "time" difference? And can Richard remain in a time that is not his?