Laure Mauffray is the sole daughter of an elite Parisian family. Her upcoming eighteenth birthday causes her parents to remark their worries that she'll become an "old maid." They insist that she finds a man to marry, even if they have to arrange the marriage themselves. Laure is often paired with strange young men at parties in whom her parents hope that she finds her destiny. But destiny doesn't come with glitz and glamour. Destiny comes in the form of a curly, blond Apollo.