Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living
on money from home. Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate
Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett
Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous
nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of
the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight, their affair is strained
by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never
possess the woman that he loves.