The show follows Emily Cooper, a marketing executive from Chicago, who is unexpectedly sent to Paris to provide an American perspective at a French marketing firm. The series chronicles her journey as she navigates cultural clashes, professional challenges, new friendships, and a complicated love life in the City of Love. She moves into a charming Parisian apartment, befriends her new neighbor Gabriel (a handsome chef), and a bubbly aspiring singer named Mindy. The show's plot revolves around her struggles to fit in at her new job (where she initially clashes with her tough French boss, Sylvie), her professional successes thanks to her clever social media skills, and the various romantic entanglements she finds herself in, particularly with Gabriel and his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Camille.