Living alone in Paris at the end of a love affair, Julie Rubempre receives a strange phone call one evening from a woman claiming that a Mr. Faranacci had heard of her work at the American Express and was in immediate need of a new secretary. However, when she appears for an interview the next day, she is told no one from that office has any knowledge of the call which has summoned her. Angered, she is about to leave when Faranacci, himself, agrees...