尽管父亲是著名的婚外情调查专家，尽管见识过了无数的忠贞感情最终化为泡影，艾莲（奥黛丽·赫本 Audrey Hepburn 饰）却依旧对爱情有着无限的期望和憧憬，她甚至觉得，只有那些明知不道德却还要迎难而上的恋情才能算的上是真爱。一次偶然中，艾莲结识了父亲的调查对象法兰肯（加里·库柏 Gary Cooper 饰）——一个在情场上如鱼得水的风流浪子。

The Moliere players are in their dressing room, getting ready to go on set. One actor mentions to another that his face reminds him of an opportunist turncoat he knew when he was in the Resistance. He then relates the adventure that he had in the Resistance, running an illegal radio station and dodging the Nazis.