An English civil servant named Jasper leaves his unfulfilling job to follow his dream of becoming a painter in Paris. But his plans are put on hold when he's unexpectedly sent to a remote research facility to shut it down. There, he encounters the quirky Lord Flamborough, who resides on a railway train and depends on government funding to keep his ancestral home afloat.

A former desk jockey abandons his mundane career for a life of artistic expre...