Jacqueline Henne marries an American GI to escape the poverty of post World War France. Desperately trying to please her new husband she drives him away and despair throws her into the arms of a married man. An inheritance and an obscure key to a pre-war fortune is threatened when the Count of Lorraine challenges the inheritance and Jacqueline's medieval family lineage.

Through ingenuity, hard work and natural ability Jacqueline overcomes the challenge and unlocks the key to her family fortune. Jacqueline finds and loses happiness, overcomes depression and finds that fortune and Royal Title will not find her happiness. Jacqueline's life is a modern fairytale without an ending.

There are always possibilities. There is always hope.

Does anyone live happily ever after?