San Francisco, 1955 Penny Fanning is the most popular torch singer at the most popular jazz club in the city. A broken woman, still haunted by the horrors of war, she has lost herself in roles she never wanted to play. She is engaged to the owner of the club, a man blinded by ambition. When her fianc's long lost half-brother, a yogi and Eastern religion scholar, arrives from India, Penny finds herself drawn to his spiritual wisdom and mysterious allure...