Austria in the 1930s ex nun maria julie andrews becomes the governess for a family of seven children who live in the shadow of their domineering and repressed widower father christopher plummer she brings love music and excitement into the childrens lives and also eventually begins to have an effect on their father but just when things are looking up the rise of nazism and the threat of the coming war darkens all their futures includes a host of memorable songs such as do re mi c