One Evening in Paris Edouard de Chavigny becomes a man obsessed. A wealthy notorious womanizer he is captivated by a mysterious young Englishwoman Helene Craig & knows that she is the woman he has been searching for all his life. But Helene is not what she seems. While Edouard offers her wealth freedom & passion she must weigh these attractions against the demands of her own secret life & her determination to exact revenge for the destruction of her childhood world. What neither Helene nor Edouard knows is that their lives are already linked & that ahead of them lie years of public glamour & private pain.