Max Skinner is a successful London-based investment banker who makes spectacular amounts of money buying and selling shares at the stock-exchange. His love life is going well until the day when he receives a ssad letter breaking the news of his uncle's death, an old man he hasn''t seen in years. He learns later that he has inherited all of his uncle’s possessions. He goes to see the house in Provence that his uncle left him where he meets a woman named Fanny Chenal. He falls in love with Fanny, who makes him question his way of life. He decides to sell his uncle’s house and vineyards but then has a crisis of conscience. Now he must decide whether to return to his life of business or settle down and give up his wealth.