When Alfred becomes an ambassador in Paris, his wife Fanny will be put in charge of managing the embassy s day-to-day. Suddenly she ll find herself rubbing shoulders with the Parisian aristocracy, hosting cocktails and dinners, and bewildered by the way in which the most menial details of her life make their way into the papers. On top of it all, she will have to mediate emotional situations among her friends and guide her indomitable sons, whose modern lifestyles she just can t seem to understand. Furthermore, it seems as though a diplomatic crisis is about to erupt, making it clear that life in an embassy is anything but boring."Cuando Alfred es nombrado embajador en Paris, su esposa Fanny se convertira en la encargada de manejar los asuntos cotidianos de la embajada. De repente se vera alternando con la aristocracia y lo mas granado de la sociedad parisina, dando cocteles y cenas, y contemplando asombrada como cada nimio detalle de su vida es aireado en los periodicos. Por si fuera poco, tendra que mediar en los asuntos sentimentales de sus amigos y encauzar a sus indomitos hijos, cuyos modernos estilos de vida no termina de comprender. Ademas, parece que una crisis diplomatica esta a punto de estallar, dejando claro que la vida en una embajada es todo excepto aburrida.""