A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
