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Steven LeConte has all the features that propel a man to success. He's bright, handsome, lovely . . . the list is long. Yet, at era 27, this scion of a dominant Connecticut family is instructing golf in Paris. His journalistic dreams have produced a few amazing leads however, not a single completed article. If he can take pride in one achievement, which he does not, it's the prodigious amount of young ladies he has coaxed from the golf golf club into his foundation. A small inheritance from his aunt is almost exhausted; he encounters an uncertain future. As though to point out his professional shortcomings, he has befriended his neighbor, Sophie Marx, the retired Paris bureau chief of the New York Times. As opposed to his own insufficient end result, her freelance articles look at a dizzy pace in the Traditional western world's best magazines and publications. Sophie has just embarked on a fresh venture: to chronicle the life span of France's leading right-wing politician. At era 70, she is unable to do the legwork herself, and opts to entail Steven. It is an offer he can't refuse, though he isn't sure her programs meet even his own low moral specifications. She would like him to go to the Riviera, where her subject's daughter is spending the summer. And then? He's to check out the guiding light of his fantastic schwanz (her terminology) to see if they can get near the father through 19-year-old Nicole. His initial hesitation is quickly get over by a photograph of the ravishing beauty. How could he have said No in any case: his soul mate, Sophie, will become his protégé and unlock the entrance doors he has not been able to start by himself. Or such is his opinion. He accepts, he succeeds - and comes deeply in love.