新奥尔良来了一个美丽的女伯爵克莱尔(玛琳·黛德丽),她迅速赢得了当地一名银行家的心。人们不知道的是,她只是千方百计地想要骗取钱财。而就在她的金龟婿慢慢上钩的同时,一名年轻的水手也掳获了她的芳心……French farce comes to the New World in 1840 as Claire Ledoux convinces the middle-aged banker who is her fiance that she is two different women -- a deception made necessary by the arrival of a man acquainted with the swath she cut across Europe. Giraud has been about to foreclose on a $150 loan made to a sea captain who needed the funds to court Claire. Get Claire's "cousin" out of New Orleans before the wedding, Giraud tells the sea captain and the debt will be paid.