Two men in love with Henriette Perrichon do their best to convince her father to pick them as her groom in mid 19th century France.
Librarian Roger Fleuriot is in love with princess Saint Labiche but doesn't dare admit it because of their different classes. The princess feels the same way and invents a twin sister that works in a shoe shop that she pretends to be in order to seduce him.
The story follows Vivian's life from young girl through two marriages, divorce, liberation and class trip, to a baglady.
