In 1913, an etiquette lecturer and a theater carpenter assemble a comic exhibition of failed courtship objects. Their project becomes popular for all the wrong reasons, and the pair must risk an unpolished private connection after teaching the town how to judge everyone else's.
A palace costume conservator and an adult ceremonial stand-in hide a disastrous uniform mix-up during a state visit. Their midnight repair sessions expose the ordinary lives both want beyond the spectacle.