Happiness (Happy) Glass has been a loner since moving to Brisbane four months ago. She still dreams about living in Paris with her best friend Rosie after they finish Year Twelve. Btu Rosie hasn't been terribly reliable lately. Happy's social life starts looking up when she wins a French Tourism Board essay competition and meets good-looking tourism intern Alex ('Alex One'). She also encounters eccentric Professor Tanaka and her gardener, a female Alex ('Alex Two'), who recruit Happy in their fight against Paris Syndrome - an ailment that afflicts overzealous and idealistic fans of Paris. Happy pursues her love of all things French, but then sex messes things up when she ends up kissing both Alexes. Soon neither of them is speaking to her and she suddenly goes from having two Alexes to none ...