A woman’s desperate desire for love in Paris leads to her some dark places.

In mid-20th century Paris, a young woman ends her engagement, hoping to be with another man. When things do not go as planned, however, the young woman struggles to meet both her own wants and desires and her parents' expectations.

Coworkers at a newspaper gleefully tease one of their peers for his constant stream of passionate affairs, culminating in an intervention when he brings back from Spain the most ludicrous girlfriend yet.

A U.S. Foreign Service officer returns home to Paris and expects to pick things up with his on-and-off again girlfriend after a long assignment overseas. Instead, he finds that she has moved on, possibly for good.

A young man invites a tourist to his favorite London café and recounts the strangest affair he’d ever had with a woman he picked up there; a woman who challenged and changed him. A young, beguiling man picks a tourist out of a group and invites him to see the real sites of London, not the tired and disappointing spectacles. He takes the tourist to the Café de Paris, an old but grand establishment with the promise of dancing and young ladies. The man admonishes his companion to loosen up, stay and drink, and while they wait for the evening to unfold the man begins a story.

In the post-WW1 streets of Paris, a jilted lover tries to get revenge, thwarted at every turn by two bumbling Americans.

When a New York woman learns that her assistant’s husband cut his middle finger off during a fight, she can’t help but dwell on her assistant’s luck with men and her own inferiority.

A conversation with his former lover opens a man's eyes to his tendency to flee rather than confront the hopeless reality of his own life.

A young girl tries to connect to a mysterious, sullen Frenchman whose only love seems to be his ship.

While on a trip to Paris, a woman questions whether she truly loves her boyfriend, but finds that she wants to befriend his teenage daughter.