As the princess of Grannady's assistant, Kristin invites large companies to help manage the princess's finances. When she talks to businessman Dean Suminski in a Paris hotel, he's cold to her, befitting his reputation as a difficult, moody genius. He tells her that he'll listen if they can talk in the car on the way to the airport. He's on his way to New York and making her an outrageous offer: he'll pay her one hundred thousand dollars if she goes with him to a party that night!