High fashion days in Paris and the Cannes Film Festival, noisy Broadway premieres and elite men's clubs in London - this is the everyday reality for the brilliant young journalist Kate Kennedy, who rose from the bottom on her own. But nothing in this world comes easy - Kate is gradually being sucked into the quagmire of sophisticated intrigues that reign in the world of the press, and for every moment of happiness in the arms of her lover she has to pay with weeks of suffering and uncertainty...