Harper Sloane is a misfit in her snobbish, and upperclass family of lawyers, who has just gotten accepted to law school at Harvard. At her sister's wedding, after being sent out from her hiding place in the storage room with a bottle of Champagne (wine), she meets Connie Fitzpatrick a Bohemianism photographer who takes an instant liking to her and nicknames her "Guinevere". Her visit to his loft in order to pick up the wedding photographs soon blossoms into a full-blown affair, and Harper eventually moves in with Connie as he instructs her in the ways of art, in particular photography.