One Friday afternoon Molly Clearwater walks out of her job, smarting from her boss's taunt that she is 'just a stupid secretary'. Twenty-one, a country girl who has lived life mainly through the pages of books, she feels that nothing exciting has ever happened to her, or ever will. On impulse Molly boards the Eurostar to Paris, emerging into a bewitching world of leafy boulevards, luscious foods and smouldering Frenchmen. Within hours she's racing along the Seine on the back of a scooter, infiltrating a conference in a Cleopatra wig and sharing with a complete stranger her deepest, darkest secret. The weekend turns into a dizzying carousel-ride of passion, excitement and self-discovery. By Sunday night Molly is a new person.