English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the 58 children of King Mongkut. Each has preconceived ideas about the other's world. Amid the danger of political unrest, their respect for each other turns into something more.
Katey Miller moves to Havana with her parents, and they expect her to associate with only the other posh Americans living there. She goes against everything when she falls in love with the pool boy that teaches her the art of Cuban dancing.