She's known as Bricktop, she's ninety-four years old, haughty and wickedly stubborn. Just ask her oldest friend Colonel Branston and his plucky sidekick Ariadne. Bricktop tells them the story of her life, transporting them back to the Montmartre of her youth. They hear of her journey from Louisiana to the French capital, how she falls in love with a jazz club owner and the battles and adversity she must face living in Nazi-occupied Paris during the Second World War. But Bricktop's story has another agenda: she beseeches Ariadne and Branston to track down her estranged daughter and assure Bricktop that the hardest decision she ever had to make was the right one.