Smeralda Amadier, a retired singer, lives in an isolated villa with her secretary and her lover. Smeralda has huge debts and when creditors threaten her with bankruptcy she decides to sell her valuable jewels. That evening, she meets Costas, a handsome young man who seduces her. The next morning, there is no sign of him or the jewels. He was apparently a penniless gigolo, but who was his secret partner in the theft?