In the age of innocence a young American girl, Rachel Lester, travels to Europe to find her destiny and love. She meets three men who will decide her life. She meets Forrest Mann, a young American man her own age, who shares with her the promise of a conventional American life. In England she meets Lord Hatfield, a man fifteen years older, who can give her a title and money. And in France she meets Count Kovensky, a charming man who offers her a life among artists, writers and philosophers and a world revolving around his houses in Paris, Monte Carlo and Florence. What choice will she make and what price will she pay for her innocence lost.