A lonely, aging American man joins forces with a French street vendor to sell his goods as his own funds dwindle.

An unassuming American soldier develops a relationship with young woman while he studies art at the Academie in France in the 1950s. He knows nothing of her past he eventually learns more about her past.

An American painter's wife threatens to leave him on their thirteenth wedding anniversary, leaving the man scrambling to take care of their four children who had been planning a surprise for their mother.