An orphaned young woman goes to Paris looking for work and love. Working as an au-pair, she is discovered by a fashion photographer and becomes a model. She falls in love with an architect but leaves him to marry a rich man.
While on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer his overly swollen love letters. With no idea how to respond she forwards the letters to a new young school teacher to use his answers instead...
During his divorce proceedings famous composer/bandleader Robert needs to live off the grid and switches identities with his friend George, a barkeeper. But his new flame, Maria, learns that George has a wife and two kids.