After a nostalgic end to a marriage with a philandering, golfing gynecologist, Beatrice flies off to Paris to stay with her brother, a diplomat, for a real change of scene. However, nothing really goes as planned when she discovers that her brother is dead and when she finds herself falling in love with a seductive Russian writer overly attached to an ageless French actress. The story develops when she moves into her brother's apartment and when she is hit over the head in the dead of night by a strange burglar. She makes friends with a neighborly French lawyer and is helped by a beautiful German au pair and her amusing English boyfriend. What happened to the glamorous gallery owner-fiancée of her brother? Is she in the morgue?