Summary
A gilded heiress, Teddy Simpson, weaponizes the telephone as both toy and scalpel: she dials strangers at dusk, trading satin-voiced innuendos for the adrenaline of anonymous desire. Each call is a paper boat set upon a moonlit gutter—ephemeral, pretty, doomed to soak and sink. Yet one night the game boomerangs: three of her voice-lovers materialize in the flesh, each clutching a diamond ring and the certainty that Teddy has pledged matrimony. While her oblivious fiancé, Rob Winslow, polishes champagne flutes for their impending nuptials, Teddy pirouettes through a burlesque of evasions—masquerading as a secretary, a manicurist, a French war-widow—trying to prune the hydra of expectations without drawing blood. The climax erupts in a seaside amusement pavilion where phonographs loop drunken tango tunes and the surf keeps time like a metronome of panic; there, Teddy must decide whether to auction her freedom to the highest bidder or torch the entire carnival of lies and walk barefoot into an honest, uncertain dawn.
Synopsis
Heiress Teddy Simpson avoids boredom by calling random men to flirt despite having a fiance, Rob Winslow. Trouble arises when she meets a few of them and they expect to marry her. She must cleverly keep her beau without upsetting the others.
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