This is a story of an attractive woman, Kate (Meg Ryan), who is afraid of flying but flies out from Canada to Paris in order to prevent her fiancée, Charlie (Timothy Hutton), from falling in love with another woman. In the plane she meets Luc Teyssier (Kevin Kline), who distracts her mind to prevent her being afraid to fly and uses her bag to smuggle an expensive necklace. Kate's bag is stolen and Luc has to run to find her bag. They both end up spending a lot of time with each other and ultimately fall in love. Kate then dumps her fiancée herself.