![William Holden](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/yx5LpyKzCc4H52mFjybrPTuwKPM.jpg)
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.