Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.

À Londres, à la fin du xixe siècle, Gaston de Nérac, un jeune architecte est amoureux de Joanna Rushworth, mais il a un rival, le Comte de Verneuil. Malheureusement, le père de Joanna, ruiné, a besoin de 10  000 livres pour éviter la prison, que seul le comte de Verneuil est en mesure de fournir.