Benjamin Antony Alden is, plainly put, a spinster. Of course, society has never bothered to create a masculine form of the term and he remains eligible by all of the regular standards. Similarly rebellious, Mireille Morin declined the traditional and ill-fitting feminine mold early in life, preferring the utility of trousers and the freedom that accompanies them. Both are content with their simple, protected lives until an accidental meeting in the pouring rain inverts everything.