Life has never been kind to Frances. She lost her mother early, and her stepmother mercilessly exploited her, like Cinderella from a fairy tale. Moreover, her younger half-sister, a pretty blue-eyed blonde, took away from her the fiancé whom Frances loved with all her soul, or believed that she loved. But the dark streak is over, and Frances is finally lucky: for a huge reward that will allow her to gain long-awaited independence, she is offered a fictitious marriage by a handsome millionaire...