Laura has dedicated her life to the family business at the expense of all other pursuits. One day while working in one of her family's prestigious hotels in California, she is struck by the captivating beauty of the man who appears before her. He, however, looks at her with pure contempt. This man, who calls himself Nicholas Valfort, claims to have come from the south of France to inform Laura about the inheritance she's received from her estranged grandmother. But a cruel fate awaits Laura when she visits him in Nice...