A psychiatrist falls in love with a patient's past life.
In order to break a smoking habit repugnant to her fiancé, Warren, New Yorker Daisy Gamble attends a class taught by psychiatrist Marc Chabot. Under hypnosis Daisy reads the professor's mind, demonstrates psychic power by making flowers grow rapidly, and reenacts earlier incarnations, including her life in England as Lady Melinda Winifred Waine Tentrees. As Daisy continues her sessions with Marc, her relationship with the rigid Warren deteriorates. For consolation she turns to stepbrother Tad. During a key interview Daisy discloses that in her life as Lady Tentrees she was born the illegitimate daughter of a kitchen maid. In the orphanage where her mother worked she acquired the paternity records of the orphans and subsequently blackmailed their wealthy sires, eventually marrying nobility. Publicity given Marc's research jeopardizes his position, but the psychiatrist is exonerated when the university's patron indicates an interest in extrasensory perception. Arriving early for her appointment, Daisy turns on Marc's tape recorder and hears the doctor lament that, while he is infatuated by Lady Tentrees, he finds Daisy quite limited. Enraged, she storms out of the office, but returns when summoned psychically by the physician. During their final encounter, she describes 14 lives, including her incarnation as Laura and marriage to the psychiatrist in 2038. Following the session, Chabot and Daisy separate. Songs : "Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here!" (Daisy), "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" (Chorus), "Love With All the Trimmings" (Daisy), "Melinda" (Marc), "Go To Sleep" (Daisy), "He Wasn't You" (Daisy), "What Did I Have That I Don't Have?" (Daisy), "Come Back to Me" (Marc), "On a Clear Day..." (Marc), "On a Clear Day..." (Daisy).
