美国漫画家韦勒曼性情古怪,刚愎自用,他带着妻子从美国奔往巴黎。这是他生平第一次外出旅行,他借着参加漫画展的机会,实质上是来追踪他的宝贝女儿。他的女儿来到巴黎大学念文学,刚好她的法国导师是韦勒曼的漫画迷,于是他邀请这个美国家庭参观他的郊外房产,由此引出一段又一段笑料,当然最后女儿也找到了真爱。Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist, accepts an invitation to come to an exhibition in Paris, because his estranged daughter Elsie is a student there. He arrives with his girlfriend Lena, and very soon wants to go home as the culture shock is too much for him. Elsie puts off meeting him because she is busy trying to find Professor Christian Gauthier, in order to get him to read her thesis on Flaubert. However Gauthier is enamored with American culture, and invites Joey and some other Americans to his mother's house for the weekend. Elsie arrives at the gathering in time for the masquerade party and to see her father beginning to appreciate French culture.