Bored with her life the way it is, Elizabeth Carlson (
Nastassja Kinski),a naïve, Wisconsin farmgirl, quits school and moves to New York to find herself. Almost immediately, she is noticed by fashion photographer Greg Miller (
Ian McShane) and invited to sit for a photos. Elizabeth rapidly becomes a top model, her face gracing the covers of such fashion magazines as Glamour and Marie Claire. At an exhibit of her photographs, she meets the mysterious Daniel Jelline (
Rudolf Nureyev), who shows her photos of terrorists of which he is in pursuit. He asks for Elizabeth's help, and she follows him to Paris.