Helen's humdrum existence changes dramatically when a letter arrives which transports her back to the past, to a time when her life was interesting and glamorous. Incredibly she realizes she is still Madame Helen Molyneux having never divorced Julien, her French husband and now she has inherited his house in France. She badly needs to escape her current life, and hopes her new identity will ensure that. But the house in France gradually reveals troubling secrets about Julien's life. He warns her of enemies. Are they real, or a figment of his imagination? One of them,a charming man, wants to spend time with her. Helen wants to believe that Julien was imagining enemies. However, as more of Julien's past comes to light, Helen suspects that his death was suspicious and as she tries to find out what really happened she fears for her own life..