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...

Uncertain about the paternity of her expected child, Beatrice has decided to live in an apartment in Paris with visits to a Normandy beach house. Her brother Richard left her these properties, with a large art collection, on his accidental death. Her life is full of intriguing characters such as Boris, who brilliantly copies the style of well-known French Impressionist and other more classical painters. The mystery remains of who murdered her brother's fiancee, Nicole Berg, owner of an art gallery, and why did the painter, Levy, commit suicide and who tried to kill Colonel Guerin in the beach...