,Arianne is a Russian maid,living in France..Her father urges his daughter to come back to her homeland and marry a well respected young man ;but she turns down the offer and continues her studies in La Sorbonne .On a night at the opera ,where she attends a Mozart's "Don Juan "performance ,she meets a handsome graybeard ;in spite of age difference between the two characters ,then begins a love story :Anna,while still a virgin,pretends she had many lovers before him (eight of them,in all).