After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.

A young woman cursed with an appearing scent that makes her wildly attractive to every man she meets finally has the opportunity to fall in love. However, she quickly learns that this unique man has his own secrets.