A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
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 newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
