Jo Kingsley is transported from her turbulent childhood of domestic servitude to the sophisticated life of the upper classes at the beautiful Chateau Colbert. Here she meets Jean-Pierre the grandson of her employer Madame Colbert and visits Paris. But Jo's destiny takes her to America where she experiences more than her dreams of becoming a music teacher. During prohibition in the mysterious haunts of Greenwich Village she falls in love with Mike Pasinski a son of Polish emigrants. However loneliness loss and hardship follow the Wall Street crash. Will the beautiful Jo let go of her demons and learn to love again?