The night Sophie Challoner spends together in Paris with handsome racing driver Jean-Luc Olivier seems to her like a fairytale - but she knows she has no part in Jean-Luc's future. She made her dying mother a promise, so one night of happiness is all Sophie allows herself. However, Jean-Luc is determined to find out why she left him, and engineers a student placement Sophie can't refuse. Unwillingly, she finds herself back in France, thrown together once again with Jean-Luc ...